Diem Quotes

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

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

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

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.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Seize the day. 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.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

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.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Life begins when you do.

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.