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    Mandy Hale
    “You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: adversity, authenticity, being-yourself, boldness, breaking-the-rules, chances, dance, dancing, finding-yourself, fitting-in, getting-older, go-against-the-grain, happiness, journey-of-life, laughter, lessons, lessons-learned, life-lessons, living-life-on-your-own-terms, loving-yourself, non-conformity, overcoming-adversity, positive-thinking, road-less-traveled, rules, standing-out, taking-chances, the-single-woman, uniqueness
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    Martha Graham
    “All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
    ― Martha Graham
    tags: dance, dancing, life, live-in-the-moment, movement, present
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    Twyla Tharp
    “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
    ― Twyla Tharp
    tags: dance, performance
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    “To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.”
    ― Pina Bausch
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    W.H. Auden
    “The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
    Not to be born is the best for man
    The second best is a formal order
    The dance's pattern, dance while you can.
    Dance, dance, for the figure is easy
    The tune is catching and will not stop
    Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
    Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: dance, desire
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    Deepak Chopra
    “Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.”
    ― Deepak Chopra
    tags: art, cosmos, dance, deepak-chopra, muisc, music, quote, quotes, rhythm, rythms, tune, universe, vibe, within
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    Lyall Watson
    “Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.”
    ― Lyall Watson, Gifts of Unknown Things: A True Story of Nature, Healing, and Initiation from Indonesia's Dancing Island
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    Nicole Lyons
    “She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.”
    ― Nicole Lyons
    tags: beautiful-quotes, dance, dance-quotes, dancing, gypsy, gypsy-quotes, love, love-quotes, lovers, passion, poetry, poetry-quotes, quote-of-the-day, quotes, strong-women, wildfire
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    Doug Wilhelm
    “The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it.”
    ― Doug Wilhelm, Falling
    tags: art, dance, flow, inspirational, smart, sports
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    “[... Dance] involves every possible feeling (as potential), because it is of the body, which is lived (inescapably) as a body of feeling. Some of these feelings we can name, and some we cannot, since we associate feelings with language only when we name them. The body lives sentience on a preverbal level. Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”
    ― Sondra Horton Fraleigh, Dance and the Lived Body: A Descriptive Aesthetics
    tags: dance
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
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    Lillian Hellman
    “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
    ― Lillian Hellman
    tags: integrity
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    Barbara De Angelis
    “Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.”
    ― Barbara De Angelis
    tags: honesty, integrity, personal-responsibility, truth-telling
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    Oprah Winfrey
    “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: anonymity, integrity, morality
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    Czesław Miłosz
    “In a room where
    people unanimously maintain
    a conspiracy of silence,
    one word of truth
    sounds like a pistol shot.”
    ― Czesław Miłosz
    tags: democracy, dissent, heroes, honesty, integrity, truth, truth-telling, virtue
    867 likes



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