Tag: Helen Keller

  • No 23 6-8-18 “Learn to be Brave and Patient”

    “Learn to be Brave and Patient”

  • No 12 3-23-18 “A Bumblebee Shouldn’t be Able to Fly”

    No 12 3-23-18 “A Bumblebee Shouldn’t be Able to Fly” “Aerodynamically a bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.”- Mary Kay Ash (1915 – 2001)American Businesswoman, founder Mary Kay Cosmetics   I do not know that there are certain things I should not be…

  • “A goal is a dream that has an ending.” 10-7-16

    No 41 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 7, 2016 “A goal is a dream that has an ending.”– Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899 – 1974) American Composer Bandleader and Pianist Well, I’m a dreamer. I consciously dream and dream in my sleep. I day dream. I have nap dreams. I have…

  • What a man can be, he must be 9-30-16

    No 40 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury   Friday, September 30, 2016   “What a man can be, he must be.” – Abraham Maslow   “A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can…

  • A Cure for Worry 6-17-16

    No 25 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 17, 2016 A Cure for Worry “As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.” – Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor Ever awaken in a funk, a cloud, a depression, a panic, or in a state of confusion? Every morning, when…

  • Share the Love 6-10-16

    No 24 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, June 10, 2016 Share the Love “When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.” – Samuel Goldwyn (1879 – 1974) Film Producer In ballroom dancing, on comment I dreaded to hear at the end of a performance was, “David, you looked…

  • Write your wonderful play of life! 5-13-16

    No 20 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, May 13, 2016 Write your wonderful play of life! “I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself… and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.” – Shirley MacLaine There is a new…

  • To Be Alive is a Grand Thing! 4-29-16

      No 18 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, April 29, 2016 To Be Alive is a Grand Thing! “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, wracked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” –…

  • Don’t Have Enough Time? 10-10-14

    No 40 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, October 10, 2014 Don’t have enough time? Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.– H.…

  • Happy Independence Day 7-4-14

    No 27 Changing Lives through Dancing By David Earl Woodbury Friday, July 4th, 2014 Happy Independence Day!   There is in every true person’s heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. — Washington…