Quotes of George Balanchine

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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

- George Balanchine

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“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

“ As an African elite, look within and ask, what can I do to change the present African narratives? What niche can I carve and do my uncompromising best to lift this continent? For my sake and for the sake of my children Jumoke Odepe ”

- Jumoke Odepe

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ Live your life, no matter what that life is. ”

- Corey Taylor

“ Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ You can never plan the future by the past. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ I will love you even when I am dust on the wind. ”

- Nalini Singh

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. ”

- Amit Ray

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ”

- Plato

“ Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightlycolored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. ”

- Markus Zusak

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ Rise as a human being live as a legend work as a Messiah and you shall see the bright glorious change all around you. ”

- Abhijit Naskar

“ And these aches in my heart create poetry! ”

- Avijeet Das

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift