[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]
Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
A lot of things happened recently, things I have seen, heard and read, that made me think of this famous Latin quote which I first learnt when I saw the movie Dead Poets' Society: CARPE DIEM. "Seize the day!"
In the movie Robin Williams tells his young and hopefully impressionable students to seize the beauty and love of each moment while we may.
Well, there is truth in this advice:
Carpe Diem! Seize this moment of the sunrise and sunset, for tomorrow there may not be another moment to seize.
I read something years ago that applies to this thought of seizing the moment:
"you who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day, if you only could know and see and feel that the time is short, how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing which you might never have another chance to do!"
The point of all this is simple:
If you have something to say, say it; if you have something to do, do it; if there's something you want, get it; before it's too late and you will end up regretting it for the rest of your life.
below are some quotes pertaining to the idea of seizing the day:
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~Art Buchwald
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~Sydney J. Harris
Present your family and friends with their eulogies now - they won't be able to hear how much you love them and appreciate them from inside the coffin. ~Anonymous
Tis better to buy a small bouquet
and give to your friends this very day
than a bushel of roses white and red
to lay on his coffin after he's dead
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4 comments:
Wah..i dengar u lunch with Shumi and Nanu. Hehehehe...anyway, I juz tolong promote, tiada comission pun. I nak MALAYSIAN LOVE THEATER like in UK and US.
I dah tgk Aladdin with my mum and my bro. Azwan will be watch on this friday. U??
Hehehe..nvr mind, just stat saving your money. Next year a lot of theater will coming soon.
"I don't need someone to fly me to the top. I just need my legs so that can climb to the top myself..."
-Amiruddin Fadzli, in being independent.
Mdm.....bila nak mai Miri...missssss u a lot.......huhuhuhuhu.......help me.....
seize the day,
or die regretting the time u lost
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