Carpe Diem

Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier. – Martin H. Fischer

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. – Author Unknown

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

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. – Christian Furchtegott Gellert

There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Later never exists. – Author Unknown

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 Wolfgang von Goethe

If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand. – Righteous Brothers, “Rock & Roll Heaven”

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth. РLouis C̩line, Voyage au bout du monde, 1932