“Not hammer-strokes, but dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection.”

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Men can only think. Women have a way of understanding without thinking. Woman was created out of God’s own fancy. Man, He had to hammer into shape.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

For we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other.

Some day I shall sing to thee in the sunrise of some other world, I have seen thee before in the light of the earth, in the love of man.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

The biggest changes in a women’s nature are brought by love; in man, by ambition

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

I will sit in the pupil of your eyes and that will carry your sight into the heart of the things

Dancing in the light like a lotus in bloom, she opens up herself to the world.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.

I will dance under stars I can not see; and I will hold hands I can not yet reach.

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.