"Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota."

-- Lincoln Kirstein

#Inspirational Quotes #Tree Quotes #Ballet Quotes

“Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.”
“We who are born from above testify to the change that God has wrought in our hearts. Perhaps the best time for you to tell someone what has taken place in your life is when that person comes to you and says, 'What has happened to you? I have known you before and after. You are different, Tell me about it.' This is the best opportunity to tell someone about Christ. If they don't see a difference, all the talking in the world is meaningless.”
“I love being outdoors - hiking, biking, and swimming.”
“Not only does the modern person often think that sight is more important than sound - there's no objective evidence to indicate that. Many people, even audiologists who study the science of human speech and hearing, have assumed for a long time that the human ear evolved to hear the human voice, rather than the voice changing to fit the human ear. And the human ear is actually not a perfect match if we map its sensitivity to the different frequencies in the human range of hearing; it's an unequal curve, it's kind of a wavy line.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.”
“Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?”

Source : William Habington (1948). “Poems”
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.”
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

Source : Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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