move + element = MOVELEMENT

2011-10-28T13:27:00.001+02:00

Meditation must be: Rid yourself of all that you are on the outside, and find the core of who you really are inside, put a spotlight on it: Who am I? Environment, people, family, your own insecurities and daily bombardments of thoughts,impressions and speech may lead you away from yourself just as much as it adds to the person you are.

2010-07-22T09:54:00.000+02:00

Do not be afraid to use silence.

2010-07-19T14:09:00.001+02:00

Art is everlasting, art is what sticks with people, art causes effect and emotion, art is what is most important in life.. just one inch behind love.

2010-07-19T02:06:00.001+02:00

We're not dumb because we don't understand, we're dumb if we're not open to understanding.

2010-06-03T11:38:00.000+02:00

It's not that I look young, it's that everyone else don't wear sun block!

2010-05-09T20:42:00.000+02:00

A little while ago, not much more than a few days ago, I was a child who went about in a world of colors, of hard and tangible forms. Everything was mysterious and something was hidden, guessing what it was was a game for me. If you knew how terrible it is to know suddenly, as if a bolt of lightning elucidated the earth. Now I live in a painful planet, transparent as ice; but it is as if I had learned everything at once in seconds.

- Frida Kahlo

2010-05-08T20:38:00.000+02:00

I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.

- Erica Jong

2010-05-07T20:31:00.000+02:00

Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.

- Erica Jong

2010-05-06T20:19:00.000+02:00

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

- Amelia Earhart

2010-05-05T20:17:00.001+02:00

Take action on your dreams or forget about dreaming!

2010-05-02T20:43:00.002+02:00

When art produces such a feeling in you that you can't stop thinking about it; Find some way to have it or remember it at home every day.

2010-03-09T03:35:00.001+01:00

I'm not blue, I'm pink and burning!

2010-02-12T19:13:00.000+01:00

Smoke is to me what sun is to a vampire.

2009-12-26T18:06:00.000+01:00

I find a lot of things goes without saying, but they really don't!

2009-12-25T18:20:00.002+01:00

I understand the spirits need to move. They are pulled in every direction to feed. When spirits are out of their way they know harder where home is. It is your ability to gather yourself that matters in the matter of survival. Important is not whether you are able to fight, but how you fight.

For my dad in the hospital yet again.

2009-12-13T04:48:00.002+01:00

What a different life we live. All of us. We put on masks, and we remove them. Layer by layer we find ourselves. Bit by bit. Everything is falling into place. Make sure you enjoy every hour of this journey that makes out your path in life. Reactions can be controlled, so when you guide yourself, guide yourself to react in a positive and enlightened way. That is the way to live happily ever after.

2009-12-08T07:25:00.001+01:00

Fascinating how different we all are when it comes to what we think is beautiful. Someone just recommended something that makes me believe even harder that I should stay just the way I am. Nothing wrong with inspiration and ideals. But why would we all want to look the same?

2009-09-13T18:11:00.000+02:00

I dance because I love, and I love to dance.

2009-09-09T18:00:00.002+02:00

Evil exists so that what is good can look better.

2009-09-02T14:46:00.002+02:00

When I see back I understand that trying to put my creative self aside was to choke myself. Let us not choke on ourselves. There's important things you need to deal with that is waiting for you while you're getting out of your pretend life.

2009-08-20T20:38:00.002+02:00

To withstand what others want you to be is quite a feat, to break free and be your own is courage and stubbornness spliced in the direction you just can't ignore any longer in life.

2009-07-03T21:02:00.002+02:00

To stand aside and watch what goes on, instead of getting your life done.

2009-07-01T14:53:00.004+02:00

Shattered dreams, silence screams, I do my best, to lay that to rest, but nothing goes away, unless you fix it right away, and how to move on, when you're stuck in all that's wrong.

2009-06-17T20:19:00.000+02:00

There's so much to enjoy in this world if we could just get out of our brains for a few moments.

2009-05-30T02:36:00.000+02:00

Andy Warhol in his wildest imaginings would not believe what he predicted, there is no room for beauty or creativity, we have wring it dry with this spiritual bankruptcy called fame and desire and endless need to be noticed, this isn't how it was when i started out - Sandra Bernhard

2009-05-12T16:28:00.002+02:00

What is it about you that fascinate so, it positions me between the uplifted and the low.

2009-05-10T23:34:00.000+02:00

Not only am I blue, I am angry too!

2009-05-08T14:31:00.002+02:00

God is looking to see how the world does. She looks at it with one eye only. Two eyes can only take so much.

2009-05-03T11:23:00.002+02:00

It's your personality that intrigues me. It's not your pay, your grade or your stuff, it is the stuff inside that matters. The stuff that shines through everytime you're breathing.

2009-04-28T14:04:00.001+02:00

There's a huge difference between just knowing and actually realizing. I am just starting to realize..

2009-04-24T23:35:00.000+02:00

Once we're blue, we can't do anything to get to you.

2009-04-22T05:18:00.003+02:00

How do we stain our auras with our personalities so that we can remember us in our next lives?

2009-04-19T10:30:00.002+02:00

I don't really care for anything except love and art. Everything else makes me feel ambivalent.

2009-04-19T09:18:00.002+02:00

How is it possible to be totally honest? Do we perhaps just strive and work towards honesty throughout our lives?

2009-04-16T22:09:00.002+02:00

I timetravel everyday, my memories make it easy.

2009-04-15T22:24:00.001+02:00

When we don't see the darkness within ourselves, we've lost the dimensions of our light.

2009-04-09T11:11:00.002+02:00

We're designed to love, to show how we're all capable of loving. But as with everything else, some people take it too far. Obsession, hate and anger stem from too much love, so all in moderation. Love dearly, and feel the connection grow stronger every day.

2009-03-28T18:21:00.000+01:00

Never stop moving! We're meant to evolutionize ourselves!

2009-03-24T02:08:00.001+01:00

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. - Anita Roddick

2009-03-22T11:10:00.000+01:00

I always wear green.

2009-01-15T15:57:00.002+01:00

Sometimes it takes getting ill before we realize how good it is to be well. We might fear death, but we may accept an end to being ill.

2009-01-14T03:45:00.002+01:00

I believe in no certain truth other than what makes me glow and what makes me smile in the moment.

2008-12-06T05:23:00.002+01:00

Dance collects you, positions you closer to your real self. A dance self is more real than a talk self.

2008-11-30T21:20:00.000+01:00

If you do what you're supposed to to, you shouldn't feel guilty.

2008-11-21T00:21:00.002+01:00

We fight for titles to fill out our own emptiness, when in fact labeling actually makes us more hollow.

2008-11-18T19:06:00.001+01:00

I wanna love, and then learn so that I learn to love even better.

2008-11-12T05:48:00.003+01:00

There will never be another day just like this, so I see no reason for not celebrating it just the way I want. I find there's a reason to enjoy every single day! Your best self, your happiest smile, your best scent; none of it can wait until tomorrow!

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2008-11-04T18:53:00.000+01:00

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2008-11-02T05:22:00.003+01:00

Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf's a flower But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay. R. Frost

2008-08-24T05:17:00.000+02:00

We are worth only as much as our compassion.

2008-08-17T23:13:00.001+02:00

Being in a place where everything is happening all at once, makes home just feel that much further away, and that's not necessarily all bad.

New York July 2008

2008-08-17T17:07:00.001+02:00

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2008-07-20T16:29:00.001+02:00

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

- Ingrid Bergman

2008-07-19T18:00:00.001+02:00

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

- Isabella Rosselini

2008-07-18T08:00:00.000+02:00

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

- Ruth St. Denis

2008-07-17T12:00:00.000+02:00

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

- Ruth St. Denis

2008-07-16T07:07:00.001+02:00

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

- Ruth St. Denis

2008-07-15T17:33:00.000+02:00

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

- Ruth St. Denis

2008-07-14T09:00:00.001+02:00

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

- Isadora Duncan

2008-07-13T18:06:00.000+02:00

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

- Isadora Duncan

2008-07-12T09:00:00.002+02:00

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love.

- Ruth St. Denis

2008-07-11T10:00:00.000+02:00

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

- Isadora Duncan

2008-07-10T17:00:00.002+02:00

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

- Isadora Duncan

2008-07-09T17:40:00.001+02:00

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

- Isadora Duncan

2008-07-08T13:01:00.000+02:00

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue, ... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

- Naomi Campbell

2008-07-07T12:02:00.001+02:00

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success.

- Anna Garlin Spencer

2008-07-06T12:00:00.000+02:00

After midnight the moon set and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the esthetic appeal of flying.

- Amelia Mary Earhart

2008-07-05T11:57:00.000+02:00

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

- Amelia Mary Earhart

2008-07-04T09:00:00.000+02:00

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

- Debbie Harry

2008-07-03T07:50:00.000+02:00

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

2008-07-02T07:07:00.001+02:00

Do we need distance to get close?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

2008-07-01T10:40:00.000+02:00

Karma, ahhh. We sow what we reap... We reap what we sow! We reap what we sow. The law of cause and effect. And we are all under this law.

- Nina Hagen

2008-06-30T05:05:00.001+02:00

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

2008-06-29T06:06:00.001+02:00

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

- Nina Hagen

2008-06-28T09:09:00.000+02:00

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breathe and reboot.

- Sarah Jessica Parker

2008-06-27T12:00:00.001+02:00

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

- Joan Chandos Báez

2008-06-26T07:00:00.000+02:00

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

- Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter

2008-06-25T19:07:00.001+02:00

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

- Patti Smith

2008-06-24T08:00:00.001+02:00

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.

- Debbie Harry

2008-06-23T11:00:00.001+02:00

To all my friends, colleagues and family: I send you love. Please support me in my passage to a new life. I have no other way to thank you than this. You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

- Virginia Satir

2008-06-22T12:12:00.000+02:00

If life gave you a lemon, make it a lemonade.

- Joan Henrietta Collins

2008-06-21T21:21:00.000+02:00

What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame apartheid, your parents, your circumstances, because you are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

- Oprah Winfrey

2008-06-20T15:33:00.000+02:00

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

- Anais Nin

2008-06-19T05:00:00.000+02:00

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

2008-06-18T12:00:00.000+02:00

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

- Elizabeth Barret Browning

2008-06-17T04:59:00.001+02:00

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

- Gwendolyn Brooks

2008-06-16T20:36:00.000+02:00

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

- Frida Kahlo

2008-06-15T17:26:00.000+02:00

I'd like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.

- Madonna

2008-06-14T12:12:00.000+02:00

And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that. - Jane Fonda

2008-06-13T07:07:00.000+02:00

You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. - Barbara Hall

2008-06-12T12:46:00.001+02:00

So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.

- Jane Fonda

2008-06-11T20:52:00.003+02:00

The soul struggle to stay alive after our disembodiment.

2008-06-10T17:30:00.000+02:00

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

- Frida Kahlo

2008-06-09T15:34:00.000+02:00

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

- Madonna

2008-06-08T12:00:00.000+02:00

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

- Oprah Winfrey

2008-06-07T07:07:00.000+02:00

I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe.

- Tamara De Lempicka

2008-06-06T07:07:00.000+02:00

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.

- Sophia Loren

2008-06-05T10:00:00.000+02:00

I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.

- Virginia Satir

2008-06-04T08:10:00.000+02:00

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

—Louisa May Alcott

2008-06-03T09:00:00.000+02:00

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

- Maria Mitchell