Never stop moving! We're meant to evolutionize ourselves!

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. - Anita Roddick

I always wear green.

Sometimes it takes getting ill before we realize how good it is to be well. We might fear death, but we may accept an end to being ill.

I believe in no certain truth other than what makes me glow and what makes me smile in the moment.

Dance collects you, positions you closer to your real self. A dance self is more real than a talk self.

If you do what you're supposed to to, you shouldn't feel guilty.

We fight for titles to fill out our own emptiness, when in fact labeling actually makes us more hollow.

I wanna love, and then learn so that I learn to love even better.

There will never be another day just like this, so I see no reason for not celebrating it just the way I want. I find there's a reason to enjoy every single day! Your best self, your happiest smile, your best scent; none of it can wait until tomorrow!

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Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. R. Frost

We are worth only as much as our compassion.

Being in a place where everything is happening all at once, makes home just feel that much further away, and that's not necessarily all bad.

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

- Ingrid Bergman

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

- Isabella Rosselini

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

- Ruth St. Denis

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

- Ruth St. Denis

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

- Ruth St. Denis

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

- Ruth St. Denis

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

- Isadora Duncan

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

- Isadora Duncan

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

- Ruth St. Denis

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

- Isadora Duncan

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

- Isadora Duncan

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

- Isadora Duncan

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue, ... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

- Naomi Campbell

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying.

- Amelia Mary Earhart