{"quotes":[{"text":"It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There's almost no such thing as ready. There's only now. And you may as well do it now. I mean, I say that confidently as if I'm about to go bungee jumping or something--I'm not. I'm not a crazed risk taker. But I do think that, generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.","author":"Hugh Laurie","tags":["activity","carpe-diem","patience","proactivity","timing","waiting"],"id":1676,"author_id":"Hugh+Laurie"},{"text":"Awake! Arise! The hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! Arise! The athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["agriculture","athlete","athletes","carpe-diem","fallow","farm","farming","haste","inspirational","motivational","opportunity","opportunity-knocks","seize-the-day","weeds"],"id":5761,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.","author":"Andrew Marvell","tags":["carpe-diem","poetry"],"id":5995,"author_id":"Andrew+Marvell"},{"text":"I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.","author":"Dave Eggers","tags":["carpe-diem","love"],"id":15383,"author_id":"Dave+Eggers"},{"text":"[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["advice","carpe-diem","inspiration","life","writing"],"id":26636,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["caprice","carpe-diem","great","learning","life","life-lessons","literature","novel","payne","regret","regrets","roman","roman-payne","sigh","time","wind","youth"],"id":27676,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.', December 12, 2004)].","author":"Stephen Hawking","tags":["appreciation","carpe-diem","expectations","gratitude","life","misfortunes","spirit","strength","unbreakable-spirit"],"id":32620,"author_id":"Stephen+Hawking"},{"text":"The word ‘sin’ is derived from the Indo-European root ‘es-,’ meaning ‘to be.’ When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a [person] trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, ‘to be’ in the fullest sense is ‘to sin'.","author":"Mary Daly","tags":["carpe-diem","christianity","etymology","feminism","life","patriarchy","religion","sin"],"id":36346,"author_id":"Mary+Daly"},{"text":"Rich or poor it’s nice to have money.","author":"Alan Sheinwald","tags":["accomplishment","alan-sheinwald","attributed","carpe-diem","change","different","economics","equality","eternity","fate","goals","good","happiness","hypocrisy","importance","independent-thought","integrity","knowledge","life","obvious","perception","philosophy","plans","progress","reason","strategy","truth","wealth"],"id":42746,"author_id":"Alan+Sheinwald"},{"text":"Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["carpe-diem","happiness","inspirational","life","self-love"],"id":43985,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":115,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}