gather rosebuds
Enjoy fleeting pleasures
To gather rosebuds is to seize pleasures while they're available—to enjoy life's opportunities before they pass.
The phrase comes from the poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and its opening line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." It captures the carpe diem spirit: She quit her corporate job to travel—gathering rosebuds before settling down.
- carpe diemGrasp the present moment
- springtimeSeason following winter
- bloomFlower or flourishing state
- pluckSpirit or yank
- floralOf or like blooms
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gather rosebudsprocrastinate
Delay action unnecessarily
delay · defer · put off · miss the boat · hesitate
gather rosebudsdeny oneself
Refuse personal gratification
self-denial · abstain · puritanism · hair shirt · forgo
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