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Carpe Diem Quotes

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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman

Contentment, not somewhere else but here...not later on, but now.
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2.
Your future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi

The choices you make now will determine your destiny.
3.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau

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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam

When I desire to comprehend the present or try to prophesy the future, I reflect upon the past.
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I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.
Leo Tolstoy

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One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
John Coltrane

One uplifting thought sends out powerful positive ripples.
7.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

'There is no blueprint for a fortress in the sky.'
8.
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Her credo is to seize the day for herself and allow others to act freely.
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It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
George Harrison

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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Evan Esar

Menagerie: A superb spot to observe the behavior of people.
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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
Samuel Johnson

13.
In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.
Hank Aaron

14.
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
Gerald R. Ford

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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke

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Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

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When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
Charles Evans Hughes

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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe

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Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain

20.
Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all.
Robin Williams

21.
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.
Vin Scully

22.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

23.
Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

24.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

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The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron

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I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
Dave Eggers

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The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon

28.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc

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Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
Ernest L. Boyer

30.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg

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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
John Armstrong

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Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.
Eugene S. Ferguson

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Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson

34.
There's more to life then living, so hold on.
Todd Strasser

35.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Edith Wharton

36.
find your eternity in each moment
Henry David Thoreau

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore

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I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.
Tayeb Salih

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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.
Will Rogers

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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

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos

42.
Do anything, but let it produce joy.
Walt Whitman

43.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler

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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

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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

46.
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
Barack Obama

47.
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
David Brin

48.
To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier

49.
Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.
Jay-Z

50.
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
Pablo Neruda