These are a few of my favorite quotes

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God." - Martha Graham

“I like living.  I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, wracked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” 
- Agatha Christie

“Do not fear mistakes- there are none.” - Miles Davis

“We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other’s beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.” - Annie Dillard

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown back into flame by an encounter with another human being.  Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.” -Albert Schweitzer

“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy.  If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem.  But I arise in the morning, torn between the desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E.B. White

"My motto - sans limites." - Isadora Duncan

"The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time." - Alvin Ailey

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism." - Twyla Tharp

"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."

- Twyla Tharp

"The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mille

"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary." - Agnes de Mille

"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do." - Suzanne Farrell

"You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time." - Suzanne Farrell