Carpe Diem quotes
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"The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness."
"I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards."
"The human race is governed by its imagination."
"Nothing is worth more than this day."
"Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools."
"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."
"Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks."
"Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think."
"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?"
"A spiritual life means: It is now or never."
"Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die."
"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 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."
"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."
"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."
"If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit."
"We are the change we have been waiting for."
"Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet."
