quotes about dance and life

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding



The best part of happiness is the pines. ~Terri Guillemets



Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires... ~Elizabeth Hardwick



We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ~Evelyn Underhill, Letters



When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys. ~Andrew G. Dehel



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Irish Saying



We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941



The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~Author Unknown



Availability is better than ability for God. ~Author Unknown



Being human in our modern civilization is being forced into a boxing ring with Nature. And we're bloodied every time. ~M. Robin D'Antan



I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss



If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck



Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Education," 1905



During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. You don't know how you'll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous. ~Melissa Bank



Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need. ~Margaret Mead



For the night shows stars and women in a better light. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan



Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent. ~Author Unknown



Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1857



Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton