“Dance is the hidden language of the soul” ― Martha Graham     “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.” ― Martha Graham       “There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will…

“I cannot live without books.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.” ― Thomas Jefferson     “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god.…

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” ― Thomas Merton   “Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ― Thomas Merton     “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.” ―…