Thought Thought (Day 100: 08-Oct-2013)
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Seize it. Don't contemplate about the future too much.
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That is a very powerful thought for the 100th day. And taken from an even powerful poem. One of my favorites too.
You could Google it on your own, but here is a small note on the source of this quote:
Carpe diem are the words that begin the last line of a Latin poem by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC). The phrase is popularly translated as "seize the day" and has become an aphorism.
Original usage from Odes 1.11, in Latin and English:
| Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi | Don't ask (it's forbidden to know) what end |
| finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios | the gods have to me or you, Leuconoe. Don't play with Babylonian |
| temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. | numerology either. How much better it is to endure whatever will be! |
| seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, | Whether Jupiter has allotted to sink you many more winters or this final one |
| quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare: | which even now wears out the Tyrrhenian sea on the rocks placed opposite |
| Tyrrhenum sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi | — be wise, be truthful, strain the wine, and scale back your long hopes |
| spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida | to a short period. While we speak, envious time will have {already} fled: |
| aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. | seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the next (day)[/future]. |
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