"Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter."

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Louis Horst

“If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love.”
“Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.”
“Dancing was the only friend I had. The practicing room was my playground.”
“It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!”
“When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn't married!”

Source : "Neneh Cherry, interview: 'People ask me where I've been for 18 years'". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2014.
“One of the things that wrong with pictures today, I think, is that so many of the people making them started out wanting to.”
“I do not want to believe in God. Â Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.”
“It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.”

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