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Carpe diem12 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! — Charles Dickens · 1843I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count. — Jack Dawson · 1997While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BCTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891All 12 quotes →Living life to the fullest4 quotes
Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. — John Keating · 1989To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? — Henry James · 1903Life3 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? — Henry James · 1903Death2 quotes
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. — Fight Club · 1999We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989Procrastination2 quotes
There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. — Willa Cather · 1912He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a dinner. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734The human condition2 quotes
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891We are food for worms, lads...because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die. — John Keating · 1989Wasting time2 quotes
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BCThere's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. — Willa Cather · 1912Youth2 quotes
There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that. — Willa Cather · 1912Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Hard work1 quote
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. — Ecclesiastes 9:10 · 931 BCLuck1 quote
He that waits upon Fortune, is never sure of a dinner. — Benjamin Franklin · 1734Missed opportunities1 quote
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! — Charles Dickens · 1843Regret1 quote
No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunities misused! — Charles Dickens · 1843Surviving vs. thriving1 quote
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Taking risks1 quote
Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Time1 quote
While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, put no trust in the future. — Horace · 23 BCVocation1 quote
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. — Ecclesiastes 9:10 · 931 BCWork1 quote
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest. — Ecclesiastes 9:10 · 931 BC