I Quotes
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“I'd wish you good luck, but you won't need it. You get to write your own story now. Nothing's luckier than that.”
Source: These Shallow Graves
“I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map.”
“I'd wondered how it was possible to magically find a soul mate in a random group of boys.”
Source: The Crown
“I’d wondered how it was possible to magically find a soul mate in a random group of boys. But now I couldn’t question it.”
Source: The Crown
“I'd worked my whole life to acquire the technical, the emotional skills to make those paintings. I'd chopped tomatoes and peeled half-eaten onion rings off plastic trays for thousands of hours. I'd painted in grief, weeping and painting, painting and weeping. There were probably weeks, whole months when I did not smile even once. I lived in a studio so small I could smell my neighbor's farts. I spent every penny I had on canvas, brushes, paints. I killed myself. I killed my love. I forced myself to forget my husband, my brother. My country. My son.
It's easy for people who have sacrificed nothing to rationalize their own ordinariness by calling me lucky. But I sacrificed my entire life; I sold it to the abyss. And the abyss gave me art.”
Source: Martyr!
“I'd wrestled against the inner voice of my mother, the voice of caution, of duty, of fear of the unknown, the voice that said the world was dangerous and safety was always the first measure and that often confused pleasure with danger, the mother who had, when I'd moved to the city, sent me clippings about young women who were raped and murdered there, who elaborated on obscure perils and injuries that had never happened to her all her life, and who feared mistakes even when the consequences were minor. Why go to Paradise when the dishes aren't done? What if the dirty dishes clamor more loudly than Paradise?”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“I’d write and read and let myself, a little at a time, step down into myself- like a stairway down into a dark, intimate kiva- where the work of vigil is taking place, the necessary attending. I imagine there’s a little fire burning in there, a few steadily glowing embers, and a quiet chant going on, from me, from some singer in me, honoring and accompanying W’s soul, which is with him as he is making his passage. ..there’s a leavetaking in process, a movement towards increasing simplicity, away from complexity, activity, expectation. The bout of paranoia, with a childlike quality of being threatened, seems part of that-like a day or two when he couldn’t just let go and float on the energies of other people, who are bearing him up-but had to doubt them, struggle. So much better when he can trust and float. There’s enough love around him to carry him now…”
Source: Heaven's Coast: A Memoir
“I’d write even if the only reader was my cat and the reviews were all purrs. It’s the passion for telling stories that keeps the words flowing.”
“I'd write you a love letter but you'll be unfolding it for the rest of your life.”
Source: Letters to Mira!
“I'd written to Rhys, How do I tell Cassian and Azriel I don't need them here to protect me? Company is fine, but I don't need sentries.
He'd written back, You don't tell them. You set boundaries if they cross a line, but you are their friend- and my mate. They will protect you on instinct. If you kick their asses out of the house, they'll just sit on the roof.
I scribbled, You Illyrian males are insufferable.
Rhys had just said, Good thing we make up for it with impressive wingspans.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“I.D. Your GENIUS - Exceptional intellectual or creative power or other SUPERnatural ability...”
“I da znaš, mnoge žene koje završe s narcisom i saznaju istinu, imaju potrebu da upozore novu žrtvu. Nemoj to da radiš. To je njena bitka, njena lekcija koju mora da nauči.”
“I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.”
“I dabble in hip-hop, but my knowledge is so minimal, it's not even worth talking about.”
“I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.”
“I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about twenty-five I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy that I was doing something.”
“I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.”
“I dabbled in verse and it became my life”
“I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do.”
“I daily disconnect and read a good book or listen to a good sermon or call a friend or my mom and talk on the phone with my feet up. I also take baths with bath salts that I make myself.”
“I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?”
Source: The Analects
“I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.”
“I dalje verujem da Sunce izlazi svakoga dana i da svako novo Sunce najavljuje novi dan;dan koji je juče bio budućnost. I dalje verujem da će današnji dan, u trenutku zatvaranja jedne stranice vremena, obećati sutra – ranije nepredvidivo, kasnije neponovljivo”
“I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.”
“I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.”
“I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.”
“I danas među nama ima ljudi izvišenog morala, koji se od jada i čemera ne vide. Ovi nouveaux rich (novi bogataši) su zapanjujuća vulgarna, ruralna karikatura svega što je aristorkatsko, otmeno, gospodstveno, što nosi u sebi sjaj duhovnog i težnju za božanskim, ali oni o tome ništa ne znaju. U tuđem perju, ponašaju se kao ćurke među rajskim pticama.”
Source: Aristokratsko stopalo
“I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward.”
“I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.”
“i dance because i dance, because i dance!”
“I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.”
“I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!”
“I dance daily to the music in my heart.”
“I dance for freedom. I dance for people's reaction more than anything. I feel great and I feel like I can do anything, say anything while I'm dancing and nobody can care. I do have times when I'm angry and I literally do slam my bedroom door and dance all around my bedroom. It's a good way of getting energy out and it's a good way of doing things, but I do it purely just to entertain other people.”
“I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.”
“I Dance in The Dark (The Moths’ Song)
I dance in The Dark.
I fly through moonlit wings.
My heart beats loud
for every living thing.
Deep in the waters
all reflects clearly,
clearly, clearly, clearly.
I fly to the heart
and weave a web.
Through this fabric of sky
all once hidden is said.
My whisper enters your ear,
“Come dance, and you will know.
the gift of Love as not separate from Fear.
The thing you fought against
is waiting to be seen.
and set Free.
Free. Free. Free.
Come Dance with Me.
Come Dance with Me.”
Source: "The Seed" Journal: A Space for Recording Your Soul Experiences and Expansive Journeys
“I dance like a dead man rolling out of a coffin, and that's also how Campbell's tastes. But if you fill up a thermos with my Duck Soup, it might help you win the marathon at the next Olympics. I'd like to sponsor your performance.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“I dance like a rodeo tornado, and I make duck soup with extra feathers. To make it taste more authentic, you should try drinking it out of a dusty cowboy boot.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“I dance like both my shoes are nailed to the wall. It goes way beyond mere performance and into the realm of art. I am the Rodin of the music world.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“I dance like my legs are made of Jell-O. I know, exotic and romantic, right? But my dancing also now comes in Duck Soup Flavor, and is FOR SALE in small, medium, and buffet-style.”
Source: BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight
“I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.”
“I dance through life, living my bliss, steeped in joy.”
Source: Joyful Living: 101 Ways to Transform Your Spirit and Revitalize Your Life
“I dance to music in my heart.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I dance to the music in my heart.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“I dance to the song in my soul.”
“I dance with hopes and sing along with possibilities.”
“I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869.”
Source: A Kate Chopin miscellany
“I dance with the dancers.”
Source: Whitman: Poems
“I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.”
Source: A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz: on his eightieth birthday
“I danced a lot when I was younger, and I've always had decent, shapely legs and thought it's now or never. I mean, when you're pushing 40, are you really going to wander around in a dress that's midthigh length?”