"Now I'd like you to step forward over here. They're not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you, their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? --- Carpe --- hear it? --- Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

 "- You take a big risk by encouraging them to become artists, John. When they realize they're not Rembrandts, Shakespeares, or Mozarts, they'll hate you for it.

 - We're not talking artists, George. We're talking free thinkers.

 - Free thinkers at seventeen?

 - Funny, I never pegged you as a cynic.

 - Not a cynic, a realist. Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man.

 - But only in their dreams can men be truly free. T'was always thus and always thus will be."

"Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular. Even though the heard may go " That's bad." Robert Frost said, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." I want you to find your own walk right now, your own way of striding, pacing: any direction, anything you want. Whether it's proud or silly. Anything. Gentlemen, the courtyard is yours. You don't have to perform. Just make it for yourself. Mr. Dalton, will you be joining us?

 - Exercising the right not to walk.

 - Thank you, Mr. Dalton. You just illustrated the point. Swim against the stream."

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless--of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"

... e também acalentar um pouco meus pensamentos e minha alma "não-sei-o-que-quero-da-vida-e-o-que-quero-ser-não-existe"

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     Para aproveitar o presente e, assim, a vida toda, devemos sempre ter em mente que o dia de hoje é único, exclusivo e não voltará mais. E amanhã, quando imaginamos que ele retorne, também já é outro dia, que também só vem uma vez.

     Nós nos esquecemos de que cada dia é uma peça de um imenso quebra-cabeça, e que se a perdermos, não há outra que possa substituir. Desta forma, se tivéssemos consciência dos dias bons e saudáveis, nós os apreciaríamos verdadeiramente pois teríamos em mente as horas de doença e de tristeza, em que tais momentos felizes e sem dor nos aparecem na lembrança como algo infinitamente invejável, como uma oportunidade perdida, como uma pessoal admiráel que não soubemos reconhecer.

     Deveríamos viver intensamente cada momento de nossas vidas, e não somente lamentá-los quando estamos em maus dias, desejando agora que aqueles bons retornassem. O tempo presente, perfeito, muitas vezes é desperdiçado na ação natural do homem de estar sempre procurando por problemas, ou relembrando coisas do passado, quando, na verdade, deveríamos aproveitá-lo ao máximo.

"Porque sempre queremos o que não podemos ter..."

 Escrito por Mari às 15:28
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