#us

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#incessant #less #longest #love #perilous

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#distrust #down #foot #set #thin

What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#cheaper #customer #demands #doing #educate

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

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

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ↗

— Alice Miller

#another #believe #childhood #difficult #does

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure. ↗

— Alice Miller

#any #articulating #careful #disclosure #every