I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Topic
carpe-diem
/carpe-diem-quotes-and-sayings
Topic Summary
About the carpe-diem quote collection
The carpe-diem page groups 119 quotes under one canonical topic hub so readers and answer engines can cite a stable source instead of fragmented search results.
Topic Feed
Quotes filed under carpe-diem
The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you__e living it.
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]
TIME: Today Is My Everything
I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
The hour of spring was dark at last,sensuous memories of sunlight past,I stood alone in garden bowersand asked the value of my hours.Time was spent or time was tossed,Life was loved and life was lost.I kissed the flesh of tender girls,I heard the songs of vernal birds.I gazed upon the blushing light,aware of day before the night.So let me ask and hear a thought:Did I live the spring I__ sought?It's true in joy, I walked along,took part in dance, and sang the song.and never tried to bind an hourto my borrowed garden bower;nor did I once entreata day to slumber at my feet.Yet days aren't lulled by lyric song,like morning birds they pass along,o'er crests of trees, to none belong;o'er crests of trees of drying dew,their larking flight, my hands, eschewThus I__l say it once and true...From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.
The future is a dark cave. So focus on the now, where it steps. Make of faith the spark that illuminates and of positivity the sound that echoes.
It__ not that we have to quit this life one day, but it__ 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!
People__specially men__on't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may qui
Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life
If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here.
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
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.
He who does not value life does not deserve it.