Focus on what is under your control

"The Creation Of Adam" Creazione di Adamo by Michelangelo

To you, love was about multitudes.

To me, Love was inordinate.

I love you, I would say.

How much? You ask.

I couldn't find the words to answer you then.

But they have found their way to me since. And this is what I would tell you.

I would blanket the world in utter darkness; I would pull back veil of light and reveal to you, a blinding crescendo of stars.

I would drain all the seven and ask you to count, one by one, every grain of sand that clings to the ocean floor.

I would tally the beat of every human heart that has echoed since the dawn of our becoming.

And as you look in awe at the sheer magnitude of my admission, I would take your hand in mine and tell you; if only you had let me, this is how much I could have loved you.

"Never Let Me Go"

car·pe di·em

/ˌkärpā ˈdēˌem/

Exclamation

Used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future.

The enjoyment of the pleasures of the moment without concern for the future.

The Origin of Carpe Diem

This Latin phrase, which literally means "pluck the day," was used by the Roman poet Horace to express the idea that we should enjoy life while we can. His full injunction, "carpe diem quam minimum credula postero,” can be translated as “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next one,” but carpe diem alone has come to be used as shorthand for this entire idea, which is more widely known as "seize the day."

The 1989 movie Dead Poets Society introduced late-20th-century audiences to the phrase, but the sentiment has been expressed in many literatures, perhaps most famously in 16th- and 17th-century English poetry. One of the best-known examples (and an example featured prominently in Dead Poets Society) is in the first stanza of Robert Herrick's 1648 "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time":

While the sentiment has long been expressed in English, the phrase carpe diem didn't begin appearing in print in English until the early 19th century. Two centuries later, the phrase is found on mugs and T-shirts and in the names of various enterprises and organizations.

Lily Elsie (1886 – 1962), English actress and singer

Lina Cavalieri, 1874-1944 Italian operatic soprano

Lone Bright Eickemeyer, Broadway actress, photographed by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. 1912

Camille Clifford, 1885-1971 Belgian actress

Marie Doro (1882–1956)

Lehnert Landrock – Ouled Naïl Girl – Algeria – 1905

Maude Adams (1872 – 1953), American actress

Anna May Wong, 1905-1961

Maude Fealy, 1883-1971 American stage and silent film actress (as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet Source)

Mary Pickford, 1892-1979 American-Canadian film actress

A Filipino mestiza woman in 1875

Maude Adams as Phoebe in Quality Street (1901)

Anna Pavlova, Russian prima ballerina 1881-1931

Silver gelatin photograph of a Malayali woman in the 1900s

Ethel Warwick (1882 – 1951), British actress

Cléo de Mérode (1875 – 1966), French dancer, circa 1903

Pretty Nose (c. 1851 – after 1952), Arapaho war chief

Carolina “La Belle” Otero, Spanish actress, dancer and courtesan, circa 1890

Miss N (Portrait of Evelyn Nesbit by Gertrude Käsebier), 1903