Just some favorite quotes of mine. Feel free to comment and leave your own

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Soren Kierkegaard

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ~Terry Prachett

"I'm the kind of girl who, when the world is falling apart around me, I can pull out a deck of cards and play." Tessa Parkinson

Do not live your life with full of WHAT IF's. rather, live your life with full of WHY NOT's

When words fail, Action speaks. When Action fails, Eyes speak. When Eyes fail, Tears speak. And when everything else fails, Silence speaks.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. 

"...It's like there's a part of you that thinks if you give people a cause not to like you, then when they don't, it's okay because you were the one who decided they weren't allowed to like you anyway." Sherillyn Kenyon

"People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else." Terry Pratchett

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
-Agnes De Mille-


When I miss class for one day, I know it.n When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss class for three days, the audience knows it.
-Rudolf Nureyev-


A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish.
-Martha Graham-


There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform and learn how to cope with injuries.
-D. Gere-


Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.
-Suzanne Farrell-


I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.
-Kevin McKenzie-


Just remember when you're not practicing that someone somewhere is and when you meet them, they will win.
-Jaques d'Amboise


I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.
-Suzanne Farrell-


A toe shoe is an eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
-Toni Bentley-


Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy; it becomes possible.
-Agnes De Mille-


If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point dancing it.
-Isadora Duncan-


The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.
-Murray Louis-


Seen from the wings, a ballerina's life is made-up of sheer physical misery relieved only by the euphoria of performance. Physical agony is a normal thing backstage and arouses the awe and pity only of outsiders unused to its sight.
-Anonymous-

"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought." Peace Pilgrim

 We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. - William Osler

"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help you are freed." Buddha

 Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. -Will Rogers

"Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring." Marilyn Monroe