We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.
An idea is a feat of association.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Happiness, not in another place but this place. . . not for another hour, but this hour.
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
Forever is composed of nows.
So act that anything you do may become universal law.
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.