Carpe Diem Quotations | Page 2

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

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

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

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

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

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

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

find your eternity in each moment

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

It is a pity to make a mystery out of what should most easily be understood. There is nothing occult about the thought that all things maybe made well or made ill. A work of art is a well-made thing - that is all. It may be a well-made statue of a well-made chair or a well-made book. Art is not a special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself that is good. Most simply and generally, Art may be thought of as "The Well Doing of What Needs Doing."

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

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

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Forever is composed of nows.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.

Your future depends on what you do today.

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe stands serenely above the politics of Germany, and I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over cities, we too will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit.

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

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

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

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

Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

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

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

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

History is a bucket of ashes.

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.