Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 7

• We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

  Mark Twain

  Self, People, Trying

  Following the Equator ch. 14, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Competition, Atmosphere, Together

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• When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Hatred, Today

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• The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

  Herbie Hancock

  Compassion, Things In Life, Spirit

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• This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Vibrations, Music Is

  Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland (2002). “Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Creativity, Artist, People

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• Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

  Ugo Betti

  Giving, Want, Persons

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

  Mark Van Doren

  People, Limits, Ability

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Death

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Love, Trust, Mistake

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• The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural exports for this country. It is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education both on the national and local levels. The strength of every democracy is measured by its commitment to the arts.

  Charles Segars

  Education, Country, Art

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• The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

  Epicurus

  Fool, Faults, Action

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• We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Law, Justice

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

  Og Mandino

  Life, Men, Dying

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• We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Clever, Study

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• A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Now Or Never

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• What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

  Thomas More

  Play, Make The Best Of It, Wells

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• Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Character, Men

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• Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

  Keter Betts

  World, Wells, Better Place

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• A valuable lesson I've learned from making music is to never let anyone intimidate me. Every student, celebrity, CEO and math teacher in the world has experienced love, loneliness, fear and embarassment at some point. To understand this is to level an often very lopsided playing field.

  Anna Nalick

  Teacher, Loneliness, Math

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

  Abigail Adams

  Hero, Heart, Character

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

  Drew Barrymore

  Adventure, Soul, Risk

  "My Date With Drew" by Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 2, 2005.

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