Emma Geller:  

use you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -Ralph Waldo Emerson You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls. - Merce Cunningham This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! - Shakespeare, King Lear “There is a difference between hope and expectations. Expectations may come with a sense of entitlement to a particular outcome, but hope is something entirely different. Hope is something that reflects an orientation of the soul; it comes from the heart, not from the mind. It involves a trust that need not be defended, need not be justified or argued with. Hope can never be wrong, never be false. We use hope to focus on what is possible, not what is probable. Hope is not attached to a particular outcome; it transcends our present reality and is anchored in the faith that something has meaning regardless of how it turns out.” – Cornelius Bennhold".