“When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. ”
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
“I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [...] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, "Did there used to be stars there?”
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
“I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.”
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
“A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.”
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
“Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wisest message of life, a wordless message that says, "Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!" Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.”
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
― Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections
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