Quotes of Dame Margot Fonteyn

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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

- Dame Margot Fonteyn

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“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. ”

- Dalai Lama XIV

“ To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ”

- Anne Sophie Swetchine

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back. ”

- Marissa Meyer

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope. ”

- Timothy Keller

“ The road to success is always under construction. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ 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

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ Her footprints are leaving green marks on the desert heart of mine ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss