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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."
— Erma Bombeck
— Erma Bombeck
"We are the change we have been waiting for."
— Barack Obama
— Barack Obama
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"I am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost
— Robert Frost
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
— Mother Teresa
— Mother Teresa
"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
— George Harrison
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
— Albert Camus
— Albert Camus
"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
— Abigail Adams
"Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat? "
— Goldie Hawn
— Goldie Hawn
"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
— Jean-Paul Sartre
"Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have. "
— Art Buchwald
— Art Buchwald
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carpe-diem,
present
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"Don't live down to expecttions. Go out there and do something remarkable."
— Wendy Wasserstein
— Wendy Wasserstein
"Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
— Liz Smith
— Liz Smith
"There's more to life then living, so hold on."
— Todd Strasser
— Todd Strasser
tags:
carpe-diem,
life
2 people liked it
"You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience."
— Alan Cumming
— Alan Cumming
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