#d

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#anything #creative #demon #rate #second

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#dances #expression #lie #music #never

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#become #correction #dearest #dearest friend #faults

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#before #bodies #dancers #floor #lies

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#anger #deny #does #faces #genuine

Grandmother hates it when I do the "turkey dance." Basically, I lather my naked body in gravy and then spaz out on the kitchen floor. She just doesn't understand modern dance. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#modern-dance #turkey #funny

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. ↗

— Alice Miller

#better #child #empathy #even #grows

Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #commandment #honor #i #i see

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth. ↗

— Alice Miller

#burst #even #forth #good #help

Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder. ↗

— Alice Miller

#beatings #children #give #humiliated #humiliation