"The beating heart of the universe is holy joy."

-- Martin Buber

#Heart Quotes #Joy Quotes #Holy Quotes

“The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.”

Source : 1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.
“Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.”
“I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.”
“I love costumes in dance, I think it's very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.”
“The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.”
“If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.”

Source : Interview with Donna Kimura, www.jazzreview.com. January 29, 2011.
“This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.”
“I really wanted to be an opera soprano.”

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