Horace Quotes

My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

Enjoy the present day, trust the least possible to the future.

Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Act now, for now is all you have.

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

Still you can’t worry too much about the future. Life is not a rehearsal.

Don't spend your time dreaming, live life now.

Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

Live for each second without hesitation

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

The right time is always right now.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.

minutes weren't given you to save but to spend. This is yours - now. Stop and live it.

Remember this: Now is the only time you have. When God created the universe, it was now. You can't say to creation and energy, "I'll do it later, not now." Later doesn't exist. Creation doesn't know anything but now. Whenever you get around to doing what you want to do, it will be now. The things you need to do to live a happier, more fulfilling life-the only time you can possible start doing them is now.

I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.

Each moment is magical, precious and complete and will never exist again. We forget that now is the moment we are in, that the next one isn't guaranteed. And if we are blessed with another moment, any joy, creativity or wisdom it brings will ensue from the way we live in the present one.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.