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Life Quotes by Isadora Duncan
- I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night,…
- All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture....
- It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main character remains exactly…
- You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
- People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
- I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning…
- Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see…
- To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.
- To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my…
- The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound…
- When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was…
- People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle