#carpe-diem

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

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

"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 am not a teacher, but an awakener."

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

"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]"

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

"Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life."

"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."

"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."

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

"The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation."

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

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

"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!"

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

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

"The future depends on what you do today."

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

"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."