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#1

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#2

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Theresa

tags: carpe-diem, future, past, present, time

3663 likes

#3

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, carpe-diem, future, present

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#4

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

tags: carpe-diem, future, present

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#5

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison

tags: beatles, carpe-diem, future, past, present, time

1885 likes

#6

“Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

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#7

“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
― Eve Ensler

tags: autonomy, carpe-diem, cherish, enjoy-life, self-empowerment, self-reliance, solitude

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#8

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day

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#9

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: carpe-diem, live-in-the-moment, realization

1196 likes

#10

“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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: action, blessings, carpe-diem, dance, enthusiasm, express, inspiration, live, love, motivation, music, share, sing, talk, truth, walk

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#11

“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

tags: carpe-diem, life

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#12

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who 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 spirit
to 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, Collected Poems and Translations

tags: carpe-diem, hope, new-day, optimism

1569 likes

#13

“The future starts today, not tomorrow.”
― Pope John Paul II

tags: carpe-diem, future, present, time

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#14

“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, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: carpe-diem, happiness, live-in-the-moment, self-determination

1130 likes

#15

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

tags: bravery, carpe-diem, commitment, courage, here-and-now, indiviuality, inspirational, passion

744 likes

#16

“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
― Muhammad Ali

tags: advice-for-daily-living, carpe-diem

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#17

“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: carpe-diem

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#18

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, indolence, live-in-the-moment

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#19

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

tags: carpe-diem, death, enjoy-life, life, misattributed, time

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#20

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.”
― Marjorie Pay Hinckley

tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, inspirational, life

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#21

“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

tags: carpe-diem, life, passion, truth

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#22

“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

tags: advice-for-daily-living, carpe-diem, how-to-live, live-in-the-moment

348 likes

#23

“You look ridiculous if you dance
You look ridiculous if you don't dance
So you might as well
dance.”
― Gertrude Stein, Three Lives

tags: carpe-diem, dancing, life

379 likes

#24

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

tags: carpe-diem, life, spirituality

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#25

“I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.”
― Rita Mae Brown

tags: carpe-diem, enjoy-life, hedonism, life, pleasure

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#26

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

tags: carpe-diem, death, important, inspiration, life, priorities, urgency, wisdom

224 likes

#27

“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
― Goldie Hawn

tags: carpe-diem, life, live-in-the-moment, music

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#28

“These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.”
― Abigail Adams

tags: carpe-diem, challenge, genius, heroism, intelligence, trial, trying-times

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#29

“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

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational

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