dancers and lovers

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

—Hopi Indian Saying (via lovingdancer)

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

—~Anaïs Nin

When they ask why we stayed together for so long
I say, “I don’t know”
I just know that we cried
at the exact same time in every movie
I know we blushed everyday for the first two years
I know I always stole the covers and she never woke me up

—Andrea Gibson, ‘Prism’  (via transformfeminism)

(Source: loverofstories, via loveyourchaos)

Now I am thirty-six and I am in Nepal and I am finally remembering what I was told I would forget.
The voice inside the mountain speaks to me, tells me again not to be afraid, tells me that there is only love in this world. Our choice is to be in love or to be in fear. But to choose to be in love means to have a mountain inside of you, means to have the heart of the world inside you, means you will feel another’s suffering inside your own body and you will weep… . You will under­stand that this pain is your own because you are not separate, from life, or from anyone or anything else. But you will fall into a forgetting. You may die before you remember. You will forget that you know this, again and again. Do not be afraid. The body remembers, it never forgets. It is your own knowing that you hide from and do not know.

—China Galland, with thanks to the Sun Magazine 

(Source: crashinglybeautiful, via firsttimeuser)