Nineteen years after “Titanic” made him a global star, Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar Sunday night for his role as a vengeful frontiersman in “The Revenant”. This is his brave and righteous speech of acceptance:
SCRIPT: “Making “The Revenant” was about man’s relationship to the natural world, a world that we collectively felt in 2015 as the hottest year in recorded history. Our production needed to move to the southern tip of this planet just to be able to find snow.
Climate change is real. It is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters or the big corporations, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people who will be most affected by this, for our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed.
“I thank you all for this amazing award tonight. Let us not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted.”
Each
year on February 14th, many people exchange cards, candy, gifts or
flowers with their special “valentine.” The day of romance we
call Valentine’s Day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back
to the 5th century, but has origins in the Roman holiday
Lupercalia:
In
the beginning, Valentine's Day was associated with romantic couples
only but in recent times
the festival is seen in much larger perspective. Now, people take
opportunity of the day to wish ‘Happy Valentine's Day' to anyone
they love be it father, mother, teachers, siblings, friends,
co-workers or just anyone special to them. The idea behind this
tradition is to celebrate love, get love and give love to everyone
around us.
Approximately 150 million ❤ Valentine's Day cards ❤ are exchanged annually, making Valentine's Day the second most popular card-sending holiday after Christmas.
Do you want to surprise your beloved ones? No need to spend your money. Here you can learn about how to make a Valentine's
Day Heart Pop-up Card ❤
And... if you need some inspiration to express your love:
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Anais Nin
I love you and that's the beginning and end of everything ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you" ― Roy Croft "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever" ― Alfred Tennyson "A loving heart is the truest wisdom".- Charles Dickens
"Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." —John Lennon
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction"
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this" - Pablo Neruda,"Love Sonnet XVII"
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” - Honore de Balzac
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
-Oscar Wilde
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ~Albert Einstein
So... make your beloved feel special and tell them how much you love them.
