Carpe Diem Quotes

Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.

~ Steve Maraboli

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

~ Dave Eggers

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

~ Helen Keller

You live but once, you might as well be amusing.

~ Coco Chanel

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

~ Marcus Aurelius

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

~ Anthony Robbins

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.

~ Wendy Wasserstein

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

~ Roman Payne

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.

~ Gertrude Stein

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

~ Rita Mae Brown

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

~ Thomas Merton

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

~ Leo Babauta

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since the rest of your life won’t last forever.

~ Omar Khayyám

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

~ Goldie Hawn

‎Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.

~ Steve Maraboli

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

~ R.a. Salvatore

The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.

~ Mary Daly

Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

~ Robert Frost

Dream as if you will live forever, Live as if you will die today.

~ James Dean

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

~ Ernesto Che Guevara

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

~ Virgil

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

~ Anonymous

Each day gives the opportunity for you to be treated right, to feel worthy, and to be successful. It’s a choice you have to make, a faith you have to embrace, and a standard you have to set.

~ Steve Maraboli

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

~ Groucho Marx

This moment is yours and yours alone! Take charge, seize this moment and allow it to propel you to the high levels of an empowered life. Allow upon this fertile moment to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play!

~ Steve Maraboli

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

~ Steve Maraboli

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

~ Thomas Fuller

Write it on your heartthat every day is the best day in the year.He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the daywho allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.Finish every day and be done with it.You have done what you could.Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;begin it well and serenely, with too high a spiritto be cumbered with your old nonsense.This new day is too dear,with its hopes and invitations,to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.

~ Roman Payne

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.

~ Cristina García