Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases…

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.

— John Armstrong

I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart,…

— Tayeb Salih

The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

— Lewis Mumford

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your…

— Virginia Woolf

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose…

— Abigail Adams

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

— Thomas Merton

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

— Jessica Sorensen

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

— Oprah Winfrey

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation,…

— Robert Breault

Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is…

— Horace

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

— Robert Breault

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

— Ugo Betti

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

— Robin Williams

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed…

— Norman Podhoretz

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is…

— Jonathan Swift