3 of mine:
1. "To understand one life you must swallow the world," - Salman Rushdie
2. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man,"
-George Bernard Shaw
3. "It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens,"
Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1976
oooh I love quotes. Here are a few of my faves (some are lines from songs...does that count?!)
1. "Forget about trying to get through the storms, life is about learning to dance in the rain." - Tamia
2. "I'm not sorry, it's human nature." - Madonna
3. "Nothing happens until you decide." - Oprah
4. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?......As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Marianne Williamson (though often attributed to Nelson Mandela)
5. "I am unwritten, can't read my mind, I'm undefined. I'm just beginning, the pen's in my hand, ending unplanned..." - Natasha Beddingfield
Oh, I love quotes! I have a whole notebook full, and I add more all the time. It's hard to choose, but these are some of my favorites:
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
"Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." -Albert Einstein
"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense." -Mark Twain
"There are better things ahead than any we leave behind." -C.S. Lewis
"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are--chaff and grain together--certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away." -George Eliot
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power
Many women kicked higher, balanced longer, and turned faster: these are poor substitutes for passion. - Agnes De Mille
Dancers are not great because of their talent...they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham
The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words. - Bill Irwin
Without dance, I cannot feel my soul, hear my heart, or see my dreams. - Nahara
(Uh, I'm a dancer in case you couldn't tell......)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa
Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love. - Buddha
It takes a good deal of courage to say "no" to the fashions and fascinations of the age and to question the presuppositions of a civilization which appears to be destined to conquer the whole world; the requisite strength can only be derived from deep convictions. - E. F. Schumacher
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. - Shakespeare