Thursday, March 18, 2010

Carpe Diem

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When I want to read a novel, I write one.
- Benjamin Disraeli

When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
- Helen Keller

There is time for everything.
- Thomas A. Edison

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
- Leo Tolstoy

The world is a book andthose who do not travel read only one page
- St. Augustine

CARPE DIEM

From a Latin poem by Horace called "Odes"

Don't ask (it's forbidden to know) what end
the gods will grant to me or you, Leuconoe. Don't play with Babylonian
fortune-telling either. It is better to endure whatever will be.
Whether Jupiter has allotted to you many more winters or this final one
which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the rocks placed opposite
— be wise, strain the wine, and scale back your long hopes
to a short period. While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled
Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the next.
(Courtesy, WIKIPEDIA)

"Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary" - Dead Poets Society - that truly is a good film.

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