Quotes by Carpe Diem 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 carpe-diem character art 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. Barbara Jordan carpe-diem healing art 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. Barbara Jordan carpe-diem differences art I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. Bernard Berenson carpe-diem time hands Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. Brian Tracy carpe-diem positive-thinking inspirational I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that. Brittany Murphy carpe-diem mom children Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. Calvin Coolidge carpe-diem government money Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg carpe-diem work writing There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. Charles Dudley Warner carpe-diem inspirational travel When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes carpe-diem diversity freedom To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. Charles Horton Cooley vacation carpe-diem travel If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically. Christian Morgenstern carpe-diem animal men In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it. Corita Kent carpe-diem giants would-be To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand. Corita Kent carpe-diem looks way 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 carpe-diem love thinking Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? David Brin carpe-diem apology inspiring How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. Doc Childre how-you-feel carpe-diem choices My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around Dr. Seuss carpe-diem ignorance use If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul. Drew Barrymore carpe-diem soul adventure Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe carpe-diem beauty fall «12345678910»