What a beautiful picture.

I know this is more than A Quote... But this was one of my (Big) sister's favorite songs.. we danced to it together along with some of the besties.. My sister Patricia or Pat as she was called by many.. was a loving, caring and gentle spirit. she died of complications, resulting from her CANcer treatments.. I miss her so. She was the perfect older sister.. She shared her friends with me.. They all became my big sisters. Funny when I look back on our time together, I remember 'Just how much fun we had'.. 'We Danced'..!!  Loveforlife.. your post brought these memories back to my conscious mind.. Thank you.. Thank you all for so much inspiration.. Hugs and love, Bj

Just wanted to share..

I Hope You Dance is a crossover country pop song written by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers, and recorded by country singer Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert.

 hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger
May you never take one single breath for granted
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'
Lovin' might be a mistake, but it's worth makin'
Don't let some Hellbent heart leave you bitter
When you come close to sellin' out, reconsider
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

Dance
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along)
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years have gone?)

Friends, my sisters,, from other mothers,  "I Hope and Pray We All Dance"..

Link to this song.. http://youtu.be/RV-Z1YwaOiw

TheDivineMrsM.. It brings me to tears also.. but they are happy tears.. Tears of Hope, Tears of Joy and Tears of Happy Days to come.. for which I really "Hope We All Remember To Dance"..!! (((HUGS TO ALL))) Bj

"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor and author of Man's Search for Meaning

Bestbird, I made your quote my status today on FB, such true words.

Comparison is the thief of joy.

"it's better to have loved and loss, then never to have loved at all."

Bestbird, a FB friend asks me for book suggestions and comments on books I mention that I've read, and vice versa. When I posted this quote, she immediately replied "Man's Search for Meaning" is an excellent book.  I went right to my library page and placed a hold on it.  I also looked it up on Amazon and it has stellar reviews.  Looking forward to reading it. 

Lilylady love it.  It reminds me of that old joke:

Whats the difference between a new puppy and a new husband -

After a year the puppy is still excited to see you when you come home!

Tanya

Posted on facebook (on a t-shirt):

"LORD, give me coffee to change the things I can change, and wine to accept the things I can't."

- Penny

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive,

do you think

ghosts will do it after?

Kabir

"You don't have a Soul.

You are a Soul.

You have a body." - C.S. Lewis

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne

"You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it." - Paulo Coehlo

"The best way out is always through..." - Robert Frost

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand." - Rumi

"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question." - Harun Yahya

"The wound is the place where the light enters you." - Rumi

"If all you can do is crawl, start crawling." - Rumi

Liz, such profound quotes I've never heard before...reading them and letting them sink in.

nihahi, I never even read your signature so wasn't aware of your stage...and loved your quote as well, as it is true.

Boni - I'll be dancing until I'm a whisper dancing on the wind. I love that song.

Thanks everyone for sharing amazing quotes.

Liz - thanks for sharing more Rumi. Rumi, Kabir, Hafiz are some of my favorites.

Not a quote, but a poem by Mary Oliver that I'd like to share. It reminds me that being open and able to pay attention to all the tiny details of life is a blessing.

The Summer Day

Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?