#carpe-diem

"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."

"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."

"If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul."

"Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today."

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

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

"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!"

"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."

"Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

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

"You live but once; you might as well be amusing."

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

"Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run."

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."

"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."

"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'."

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

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

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