Carpe Diem Quotes
Live each day as if it`s your last`, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn`t practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.
I'm not saying it's wrong to plan for the future. I'm warning not to make today a victim of those plans.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn`t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I`m going to be happy in it.
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for another hour but this hour.
The day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
We are not special.
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."