carpe diem

life

toast (speech)

longevity

blessing

momento mori

one-liner

regret

seize the day

spoiler alert

be yourself

boldness

risk-taking

coffee

appreciation

YOLO

is the idea that one should do it now, for there may be a law against it tomorrow.

Do it now! There may be a law against it tomorrow.

is the idea that nothing is worth more than this day.

is the idea that: This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.

is a wise dictum --- Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.

is wise --- No human being is rich enough to buy back his past.

No human being is rich enough to buy back his past.

is wrongly thought to mean seize the day--it means something gentler and more sensible. It means pluck the day. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.

Carpe diem' doesn't mean seize the day--it means something gentler and more sensible. 'Carpe diem' means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem," if my school Latin servies. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things--so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant--pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it. That's not the kind of man that Horace was.

is wise --- Shrink from asking what is to be to-morrow, and every day that fortune shall grant you set down as gain.

Shrink from asking what is to be to-morrow, and every day that fortune shall grant you set down as gain.

is a wise dictum --- He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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