Avedon Nureyev Quotes & Sayings

Here are experiences which one cannot survive, after which one feels that there is no meaning left in anything. Once you have reached the limits of life, having lived to extremity all that is offered at those dangerous borders, the everyday gesture and the usual aspiration lose their seductive charm. If you go on living, you do so only through your capacity for objectification, your ability to free yourself, in writing, from the infinite strain. Creativity is a temporary salvation from the claws of death — Emil Cioran

But who ever said the easiest path
is the one you should choose? — Ellen Hopkins

I started very early, from five or six years old, to climb. To climb trees, to climb rocks everywhere I could. At some point, of course, I used a rope. — Philippe Petit

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power. — Horace Mann

Expect nothing and appreciate the value of everything; this is the true lesson of the Rule of Acceptance. — Michael Tlanusta Garrett

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way. — Marcia Wallace

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. — Maya Angelou

Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy. — Judy Blume

One has various things in the back of one's mind. Occasionally an opportunity presents itself to bring one forward. Most of these opportunities come to nothing. Once in a very great while one
or two
do come to something. — Robin McKinley

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music. — David Amram