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“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.” This image demonstrates the quote because the sun peeking through is the clouds and shows how the natural way is better than all the unnatural distractions.

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“But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise.” This image connects to his quote because he is talking about how walking is enjoyable and an experience to be undertaken, and walking on a log is different than walking to exercise.

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“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.” The stars in this image evoke the wonder and reverence, because they are out of reach but forever there every night.

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“Such is the constitution of all things, or such the plastic power of the human eye, that the primary forms (of beauty), as the sky, the mountain, the tree, the animal, give us a delight.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
This picture demonstrates the quote as so many people see beauty only in things like nature, when beauty can happen in moments like these.

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“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” This image represents the quote, as for most of human history, the Earth was regarded as flat, until ingenious astronomers and mathematicians came along and proved the Earth is round.

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Carpe diem- Seize the day. This is what the poem and Dead Poets Society encourage. If you don't seize the day, are you even living life? The film especially showed me how to live life, because it is easy to say a concept, but the examples of how to live life showed me possibly how to live my life or how people can apply these principles to their lives. It's important to live life in the moment, because I don't want to look back and regret me not doing something and wish I had done it but I couldn't get the courage to do it.

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Reject the societal norms around you to live life the way you want!

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My contribution and verse to the world will be that I accomplished my dreams and I helped others achieve theirs. I don’t need to be the person who is the first to do something, but joy from within me can come from the joy from others as well as myself. I will do this however possible, whether it is being there for somebody in the moment they need someone to talk to, or volunteering my time or effort to causes that make the world a better place.

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The greatest change happens when people drive the change with a purpose in mind and seize the moment.

Martin Luther King had a dream, but then he acted upon it, and changed the world forever.

Marsha P. Johnson wanted to change the world, and one purposeful movement changed the course for millions of people forever.

Most people can’t comprehend these people are exactly like everyone else in the world.

But they acted.

They acted on desire, and fueled by their purpose in life, their purpose for change, they will be remembered forever.

They unwittingly established that their mark in the history of the world will last forever.

Both of these people, despite having the world against them, seized their moment, their one moment of change.

They decided to do something.

And look what happened.

It makes you wonder, what happened if every person in the world seized their moment?

How many people are genuinely driven by a purpose in life?

And yet, how many people in history books weren’t driven by purpose?

Zero.

Until you live life with purpose, nothing will change.

Maybe you don’t want or need change.

Even then, seizing the moment is how to experience life.

You aren’t living if you can’t live right in the moment.

So, what purpose will you be driven by?

Or will you take a backseat in life, and just read about the people with purpose who seized the moment?

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Living liberated is about living who you are, without any constraints holding you back.

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This video displays two tenets especially through one action, individuals breaking the societal constraints against them in the name of change.

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Part of transcending is individualism, and when I saw this table it made me think that you could sit there and feel like the only person in the world.

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A tenet of transcendentalism is rejection of traditional establishment, and when I was up on the mountain looking down on the faraway city, I felt so disconnected from society.

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A tenet of transcendentalism return to nature and simplicity, and when I took this photo it was just me outside enjoying looking at the moon, with no distractions.

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Phones, specifically social media challenge all the main tenets of transcendentalism, yet are prevalent throughout our society.

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Transcendentalism promotes the use of living through the values of nature, as transcendentalists believe in a certain set of values they believe can be embodied by nature or have a strong and clear connection with nature, in that one can learn from nature, and nature can empower those to achieve things such as independent thinking and how it can be applied to society as well. "This claim that nature is inviting him to learn about simplicity shows how nature teaches values. The value of simplicity is also a tenet of transcendentalism...", "This harsh criticism of the mass of people shows how independent thinking is valued, because you are a machine without independent thinking. Independent thinking is important as it can be tied into the tenet of individualism in Transcendentalism.", "In this piece, he is arguing that society is so caught up in being able to explain why things are the way they are, they can’t just appreciate that they are. This can connect back to a tenet of transcendentalism that argues for more simplicity and..."