Carpe Quotes · Page 2

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

— Publilius Syrus

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

— Oprah Winfrey

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

— Walt Whitman

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

— Robert Breault

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

— William Habington

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

— Epicurus

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

— Robert Breault

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

— Ugo Betti

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

— Christian Morgenstern

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

— Maria Shriver

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine…

— Sean Pertwee

It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all…

— Andrea Barrett

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

— Roger Caras

Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to…

— Ernest L. Boyer

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

— Marcus Aurelius

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from…

— Tayeb Salih

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to…

— Epictetus

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the…

— Leo Tolstoy

Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate…

— Ernest L. Boyer

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of…

— Herbie Hancock

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our…

— Barbara Jordan

The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts…

— Barbara Jordan

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

— Alan Cumming

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

— Albert Schweitzer

“What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

— Keter Betts

I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.

— Gloria Feldt

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

— Robin Williams

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

— Abraham Lincoln

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

— Anonymous

This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

— Wynton Marsalis

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

— Jessica Sorensen

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might…

— Robert Breault

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

— Horace

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

— Lord Chesterfield

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it?…

— Robin Williams

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

— Lord Chesterfield