Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
  Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

  Horace

  Time, Littles, Morrow

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

  Rosalind Russell

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

  Barack Obama

  Education, People, Imagination

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• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
  O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Freedom, Home

  Francis Scott Key, “Defence Of Fort M'Henry”

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• The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Political, Liberty, Flags

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1971). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.

  Andrea Barrett

  Writing, People, Secret

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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Anxiety, Alarms, Disaster

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Fruit, Libertarian

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, People, Rich

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Men, Lazy, Half

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• How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

  Alec Baldwin

  Children, Humanity, Individual

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• Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.

  Martin Luther

  School, Skills, Music Education

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Men, Civilization

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• So act that anything you do may become universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, May, Universal

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