Carpe Diem Quotes
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.
We have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about past or future. Happiness is in the now.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
We are not special.
We are not crap or trash, either.
We just are.
We just are, and what happens just happens.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn`t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I`m going to be happy in it.