“Dancers have a very hard job. We must take our ugly, callused, blistered, and bruised feet and present them in a way so that they are mistaken as the most beautiful things on Earth.”
"Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."
- Anonymous
Compassion
"Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it."
- Anonymous
Forgiveness
"True friendship is like a rose, we don’t realize its beauty until it fades."
- Anonymous
Relationships
"A life filled with love, must have some thorns, but a life empty of love will have no roses."
- Anonymous
Love
"A woman is like a rose…If you take good care of her, you will see love blossom."
- Anonymous
Love
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity