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8f823f6 Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. carpe-diem education inspirational learning Mahatma Gandhi
5941500 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. adventure carpe-diem enjoy-life experience inspirational life live-in-the-moment purpose-of-life Eleanor Roosevelt
6437ba5 I am not a teacher, but an awakener. carpe-diem education inspirational learning mentoring Robert Frost
b0ef153 When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ... carpe-diem inspirational life seize-the-day Marcus Aurelius
946c088 Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. advice-for-daily-living aspirations carpe-diem inspirational James Dean
17f15bb We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. bravery carpe-diem commitment courage here-and-now indiviuality inspirational passion Che Guevara
7e327dc Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. carpe-diem inspirational life Wendy Wasserstein
f6308aa "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [ carpe-diem expectations gratitude life misfortunes spirit strength unbreakable-spirit Stephen W. Hawking
0fed28f The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead. carpe-diem enjoy-life inspirational life Marjorie Pay Hinckley
2c5da30 Death twitches my ear carpe-diem creepy death death-and-dying inspirational living philosophical philosophy seize-the-day Virgil
9885f20 There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. carpe-diem inspirational Jean-Paul Sartre
2ce4c88 ?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. action carpe-diem choices inspirational life motivational new-day opportunities seize-the-day unique Steve Maraboli
95001b2 You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye--and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren't thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You thought of all the reasons that kept you together. And, no doubt, how you wished you'd had more time. Even if you'd had centuries... When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch--when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had. No one got forever. And it was a fucking crime to waste what you were given. carpe-diem forever loss love qhuinn time J.R. Ward
2ead4b8 Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you. activity carpe-diem procrastination time Paulo Coelho
8bc2ae9 The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. carpe-diem dead death dream dying existing life life-and-death living reality truths Arundhati Roy
d81a066 Take too much time, and time will take you. carpe-diem inspirational inspiring mortal mortality motivating motivational seize-the-day time Lisa Kleypas
98cdf3e "Let's burn our masks at midnight and as flickering flames ascend, under the witness of star-clouds, let us vow to reclaim our true selves. Done with hiding and weary of lying, we'll reconcile without and within. Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns, we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn; authenticity being-real burn carpe-diem inspiration inspirational masks motivational motivational-quotes real true-self true-selves John Mark Green
0a18081 It's not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one's sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature. carpe-diem dysphoria gender gender-identity living-the-moment maggie-nelson self-awareness the-argonauts transgender Denise Riley
d85e190 A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other. carpe-diem change freedom inspirational-attitude Ursula K. Le Guin
04713e1 Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes. carpe-diem courage curiosity cynicism life living teaching teachings teenagers Donald Barthelme