Carpe diem Quotes SMS

Carpe diem Quotes SMS

For a long time it had seemed

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way.  Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.  ~Fr. Alfred D’Souza

Life happens too fast for you ever

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it.  If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.  ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

To morrow oh twill never be if

To-morrow – oh, ’twill never be,
If we should live a thousand years!
Our time is all to-day, to-day,
The same, though changed; and while it flies
With still small voice the moments say:
"To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise."
~James Montgomery, To-dayBMC

If life has those moments ecstasies

If life has those moments ? ecstasies of health, youth and peace… ? treasure them. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate StephensTPVgb, Smith b.1849-d.1877, Stephens b.1853-d.1938; Smith was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Kansas from 1872-1875

Never forget that you must die death

Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect… God has written the letters of death upon your hands.  In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M.  It means "Memento Mori" – remember you must die.  ~J. Furniss, Tracts for Spiritual ReadingMHC

To always be intending to live a

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it – this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.  ~Walter ScottCOCI

Now is the time to get drunk

Now is the time to get drunk!  To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk – on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.  ~Charles Baudelaire, "Enivrez-vous," Paris Spleen, 1869LCD

The moment when you first wake up

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.  No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen.  And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot.  The possibility is always there.  ~Monica Baldwin

Remember you must die whether sit about

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.  ~HoraceDCMOO

What a folly to dread the thought

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.  ~John Howe

I try to treat each evening and

I try to treat each evening and weekend as little slices of retirement because no one is guaranteed a lengthy one at the end of their career.  ~Mike Hammar2011mail

I held a moment in my hand

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour.  I dripped it carelessly, Ah!  I didn’t know, I held opportunity.  ~Hazel Lee

Tell me what is it you plan

…Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
~Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (poem)

Regret for the things we did can

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.  ~Sydney J. Harris

Many a man gets weary of clamping

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.  ~Henry S. Haskins

Life is what happens to us while

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.  ~Allen Saunders, 1957John Lennon, “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”; similar expressions were used by others prior to Lennon’s use of this line, and have been attributed to Betty Talmadge, Thomas La Mance, Margarate Millar, William Gaddis, and Lily Tomlin, but the earliest known published occurrence was the 1957 attribution of Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. to Allen Saunders in Reader’s Digest, according to The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes

When a man knows he is to

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.  ~Samuel Johnson

Many people take no care of their

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.  ~Johann von Goethe

I dont want to get the end

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it.  I want to have lived the width of it as well.  ~Diane Ackerman

If i could only remember that the

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.  ~Edmund WilsonSD

Catch then oh catch the transient hour

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life’s a short summer, man a flower;
He dies – alas! how soon he dies!
~Samuel Johnson

Waste not the smallest thing created for

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.  Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity.  ~E. KnightQSO

When one subtracts from life infancy which

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning – how much remains of downright existence?  The summer of a dormouse.  ~Lord Byron

Alas for those that never sing but

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Voiceless"commonly misquoted as Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. =or= go to the grave with the song still in them; walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page

How did it get so late soon

How did it get so late so soon?
It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
~Dr. Seuss

Tis better to buy a small bouquet

‘Tis better to buy a small bouquet
And give to your friend this very day,
Than a bushel of roses white and red
To lay on his coffin after he’s dead.
~Author Unknown

The question for each man is not

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.  ~Hamilton

I would could stand on a busy

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.  ~Bernard Berenson

He has spent all his life in

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.  ~Sydney SmithQSO

And in the end its not years

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count.  It’s the life in your years.  ~Abraham Lincoln

We do not what we want and

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.  ~Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939MBT

When you were born cried and the

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.  Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.  ~Indian Saying

If you were going to die soon

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?  And why are you waiting?  ~Stephen Levine

Every day of our lives we are

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN

In theory one is aware that the

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed.  So it is with Time in one’s life.  ~Marcel Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927LCD