It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. |
It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all. |
Jazz is the music of the body |
Jazz is the music of the body |
Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become a woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality...I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence. |
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. |
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. |
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. |
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. |
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. |
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. |
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together |
My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living. |
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. |
People living deeply have no fear of death. |