Carpe Diem

I learn of this phrase while in high school - from my English Literature class and again from my class mate who was rather into the Dead Poets Society - erm, Ethan Hawke I mean. I learnt it, I know it, but I have yet to practice this day-to-day. And that's what I need to appreciate and enjoy my everyday. Carpe diem is:

Latin for "pluck the day". It is also a term often used in navies as an expression of goodwill. The phrase is metaphorically translated into English as "seize the day".

Robin Williams' character as a teacher of a boys' boarding school in the film Dead Poets Society uses it:

"But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? — Carpe — hear it? —
Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
by Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.