Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 5

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.

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

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

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

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

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

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

Life begins when you do.

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

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

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?

Don't think, but look! (PI 66)

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.