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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpe_diem

Carpe diem is a Latin aphorism, usually (though questionably) translated "seize the day", taken from book 1 of the Roman poet Horace's work Odes (23 BC)

 

Carpe is the second-person singular present active imperative of carpō "pick or pluck" used by Horace to mean "enjoy, seize, use, make use of". Diem is the accusative of dies "day". A more literal translation of carpe diem would thus be "pluck the day [as it is ripe]"—that is, enjoy the moment

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On 7/29/2021 at 5:11 PM, happiness IS said:

This is fun. Thanks Brother.

A Swahili language phrase from East Africa, meaning "no trouble" or "no worries" and "take it easy". (literally hakuna: "there is no/there are no"; matata: "worries".) 

 

 

 

In Costa Rica, the equivalent to "Hakuna matata" is "pura vida" (literally: pure life). For the people there it's the same philosophy of life as "hakuna matata".

Chrissy :wave:

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