"Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang."

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Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2011). “Fatigue Artist”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#Teacher Quotes #Song Quotes #Air Quotes

“One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't you Zusai?" Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.”
“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.”

Source : Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”
“I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art.”
“The two heart-grey puddles: two mouthsfull of silence.”
“Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.”
“You might think of a haunting as a loop of video or audio tape playing itself over and over for you to watch. Trying to interact with it would be akin to trying to interact with a show on your TV: sure, you can turn it off or change the channel, but I wouldn't expect the actors to suddenly stop and talk to you directly.”
“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.”

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