Gabrielle Quotes

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in the package we assume he'll come in.

If you have a body you are a dancer

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

It takes discipline to be a free spirit.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

After you leap, before you land, is God.

I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Much of our anxiety and stress comes when we're focused on fear and disconnected from the voice of our inner guide.

My definition of God is the ever-present essence of love.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

In many shamanic societies, people who complain of being disheartened... or depressed would be asked,... When did you stop dancing? ... This is because dancing is a universal healing salve.

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit.

We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

We're constantly changing and any practice meant to serve our authenticity should reflect our fluid nature.

Forgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

You have to be resilient.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

I like meat and carbohydrates.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

If you just set people in motion, they'll heal themselves.

Each day when you wake up, say: "What miracles would you have me perform today?" Then listen.

A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude.

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing.

I decided to follow my dreams and my passions and to always have an adventure, no matter what it is.

I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts.

Today I no longer need to change the world around me. I just need to change the way I see it.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Movement practice gets all your creative juices flowing. It doesn't just release your body, but it opens up your heart and empties out your mind, as well.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer