Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour."
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Carpe Diem
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Your future depends on what you do today."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"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."
Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"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."
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"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
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"Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others."
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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."
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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."
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"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
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"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."
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"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
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"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return."
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"Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life."
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."
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"Forever is composed of nows."
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"Set wide the window. Let me drink the day."
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"find your eternity in each moment"
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"By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower."
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"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
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