"Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners."

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Source : Anna Paskevska (2013). “Ballet: From the First Plie to Mastery, An Eight-Year Course”, p.6, Routledge

Anna Paskevska

#Dance Quotes #Children Quotes #Discipline Quotes

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
“Faith has need of the whole truth.”
“Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence.”
“Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.”
“What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.”
“Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The morality of a society is alone the basis of civilization.”
“What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.168, Del Rey
“I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.”

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