I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.
Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save_x000D_ _x000D_ A life which valour could not, from the grave._x000D_ _x000D_ A better buckler I can soon regain,_x000D_ _x000D_ But who can get another life again?
Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.
Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
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