"The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place."
~Barbara De Angelis
2007-02-03 10:26:03 · 22 answers · asked by starsgirl021687 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
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2007-02-03 10:28:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It means that neither who you were, nor who you want to be is what defines your life. Your life is defined by all the little things you do and experience every day, on the way from where you were to where you are going. The dance of life, meaning the things that really come to matter in life and define who you are, takes place in the steps you take every day, as well as in how you respond to the things you never plan for along the way. That is what makes it a dance... it isn't just your life, but your life as it revolves around and intertwines with the life around you. She is saying that it is this journey that is your life, and not the origin or the goal. Your goals can influence the direction of your life, but it is the steps you take towards them that actually become your life, and may not at all be what you expected... hence the dance.
2007-02-03 20:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by David T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that this means that everytime you change, accomplish something new, get new ideas, and even fail you are evolving as a person and the space between the "old" you and the "new" you is what really makes your life for we are always changing and that space is trully the climax of your life for we live to change and when we finally stop changing the cllimax starts declining until th "dance" is finally over.
2007-02-03 22:17:05 · answer #3 · answered by BrendaBella 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It basically says that the "dance of life" or the fun part of life is when you are in the process of changing yourself for the good and become the best that you can possibly be.
2007-02-03 18:31:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
She is saying; don't forget to live your life today, while waiting for a future event to occur. Here and now is where life happens. You can spend your time thinking about who you once were, and you can spend your time thinking about who you want to become, either way you are using your present moments unproductively because the only time you really have in which you can experience anything, is here and now. It's the psychology of present moment living.
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In light of it always being Now and always being Here, "Be Here Now" isn't just good advice, it's the only possibility. If you want to experience the deepest truth of things as they really are, you are going to have to be in harmony with being here, now.
Leigh Brasington
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The Salutation to the Dawn
Sanskrit
Listen to the salutation to the dawn,
Look to this day for it is life, the very life of life,
In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of our existence.
The bliss of growth, the splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision,
But today well spent makes every yesterday a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day.
Such is the salutation to the dawn.
2007-02-03 18:30:15 · answer #5 · answered by ThinkaboutThis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means I'm deciding my life for myself. Nobody else is deciding for me, and I have the chance to live my life to the fullest. Lee Ann Rimes also uses a metaphor of life as a dance in her song, "I Hope You Dance."
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...
2007-02-04 03:21:59 · answer #6 · answered by Sarah 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a journey, not a destination...
"Everybody wants to life on top of the mountain, but the joys of life are found while climbing the mountain"
2007-02-04 10:39:07 · answer #7 · answered by ••Mott•• 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The journey the boy takes to become a man.....Also the same for a girl becoming a woman......
2007-02-03 18:35:00 · answer #8 · answered by railroad_joe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally, it means that life is continuously changing, and that's just what it's about. We should accept that we cannot keep things the way they always were (that would make it living ina fantasy, not REAL life). It is, after all, what keeps life intersting.
2007-02-03 21:36:44 · answer #9 · answered by heart x3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about this?
"It's exciting to live in the 'now' - that's where we are when we're not dwelling on the past but have learned from it, and where we focus on being and becoming what we feel compelled to be!"
May your own interpretation help you find inspiration.
2007-02-04 02:45:35 · answer #10 · answered by truehartc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a beautiful quote. Is it for school? What does it mean to you? Life is a dance honey.
2007-02-03 20:32:11 · answer #11 · answered by gr8mindsthnkalike2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋