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They know me in a way no one ever has. They open me to things I never knew existed. They drive me to insanity and push me to my depths. They are the beat of my heart, the pulse of my veins, and the energy in my soul. They are my kids.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass”, Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” – Harmon Killebrew
“Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.” ~ Unknown
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.” ~Thomas Fuller
“Love is blind but after experiencing it for a long time you should become familiar with some particular spots.” ~Unknown
“Romance is the fuel that keeps love burning hot.” ~Rusty Silvey
“Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ~John Keats
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” ~Victor Hugo
“Love – a bare whisper that makes your body ignite with such uncontrollable curiosity.” ~Unknown
“Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.” ~ Stacie Cunningham
“I love you; not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” ~ Roy Croft
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach…” ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The closer I’m bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.” ~Robert G. Ingersoll
“Those who love deeply never grow old.” ~Anonymous
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.” ~Janos Arnay
Someone sent me this, “He is the only reason I get up in the mornings” ~Unknown
“There can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.”~Victor Robinson
“The only true gift is a portion of yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love is just a word until it is proven to you.” ~Unknown
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.” ~Mignon McLaughlin
“Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.” ~Sammy Cahn
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” ~Plato
“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” ~Barbara De Angelis
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.” ~Jane Austen
“You can’t put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.” ~Melanie Clark
“She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes…” ~ Lord Byron
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” ~H. L. Mencken
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich Segal
“We can only learn to love by loving.” ~Iris Murdoch
“It is impossible to love and be wise.” ~ Francis Bacon
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” ~Ingrid Bergman
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” ~Albert Einstein
“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” ~Ambrose Bierce
“Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I need you because I love you.” ~Erich Fromm
“That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love.” ~Emily Dickinson
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.” ~Amelia Burr
“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.” ~Euripides
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” — William W. Purkey
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams
“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.” — André Gide
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.” — Mother Teresa
I have younger friends who don’t work, and they aren’t doing so well. My secret is to keep going, keep working.
I used my mother’s radio as a PA system. I’d take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.
I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.
I Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever.
One minute we’re over here, the next minute we’re doing something completely different. But it’s interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn’t do with analog.
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn’t go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.
Martha Graham was one of the best dancers and choreographers of all time. Today we celebrate his anniversary in our way, sharing Martha Graham Quotes.
‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Censorship is the height of vanity.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
First we have to believe, and then we believe.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Learn by practice.
Misery is a communicable disease.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
The body is a sacred garment.
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
The body never lies.
The body says what words cannot.
The only sin is mediocrity.
Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
The body is a sacred garment.
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the outer space of the imagination. There is a great deal of outer space, distant from our daily lives, where I feel our imagination wanders sometimes. It will find a planet or it will not find a planet, and that is what a dancer does.
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It’s a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.
Misery is a communicable disease.
In 1980. a well-meaning fundraiser came to see me and said, “Miss Graham, the most powerful thing you have going for you to raise money is your respectability.” I wanted to spit. Respectable! Show me any artist who wants to be respectable.
I’m asked so often at ninety-six whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of energy. I know the anonimity of death has no appeal for me. It is the now that I must face and want to face.
“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~Milton Berle
“A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” ~Victor Hugo
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” ~William Makepeace Thackeray
“Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.’ ~Irish Proverb
“God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.” ~Rudyard Kipling
“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.” ~Aristotle
“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” ~Agatha Christie
“No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right. She may scold you for little things, but never for the big ones.” ~Harry Truman
“A boy’s best friend is his mother.” ~Joseph Stefano
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” ~Sophocles
“Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.” ~Ann Taylor
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.” ~Washington Irving
We can complain because flowers have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have flowers ~ Chinese proverb
Fall down seven times, stand up eight – Japanese proverb
One barrel of wine can work more miracles than a church full of saints ~ Italian proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention ~ English proverb
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love – Turkish proverb
Dig the well before you are thirsty ~ Chinese proverb
Even great towers start at ground level ~ Chinese proverb
Let me share with you a great motivational Pablo Picasso Quote :)
„My mother said to me, «If you are a soldier, you will become a general.
If you are a monk, you will become the pope.
Instead, I was a painter and become Picasso.»” – Pablo Picasso
I know that all of us always wanted to impress special persons in our lifes. Today, I’m gonna show you some great sweet quotes to say to someone special. At the end, please tell me your opinion about these quotes. Thanks :)
When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ Dr Seans
A Friend is a treasure.
More precious than Gold,
For love shared is priceless
And never grows old. ~ Unknown Author
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown Author
I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. ~ Roy Croft
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.~ Unknown Author
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.~ Unknown Author
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato
Some of the greater things in life are unseen thats why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream… ~ Unknown Author
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Unknown Author
A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much. ~ Unknown Author
As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change…I will always keep falling in love with you. ~ Karen
If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart.. I’ll always be with you. ~ Winnie the Pooh
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ~ Winnie the Pooh
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. ~ Unknown Author
The best thing about me is you. ~ Shannon Crown
Life in abundance comes only through great love. ~ Elbert GreenHubbard
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ~ Unknown Author
If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will. ~ Unknown Author
Love means never having to say you are sorry. ~ Erich Sehgal (from book Love Story)
Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever. ~ Unknown Author
We can not do great things. We can only do little things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
