Ann Voskamp Quotes

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

Water's never clumsy.

I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.

Dancing came easy to me.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

I did ballet as a child and started again seven years ago. I love that you hear this exquisite music, and for a moment, you feel like a thing of beauty; it's changed my awareness of my body.

I am in love with dance and my parents accept that gracefully.

I'm so blessed, thank you Jesus!

I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day.

I moved my arms through the water, feeling them float on the surface, watching the waves and wake that followed my gesture. Here was magic, I thought. Here was something holy.

We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

Humor is not a trick, not jokes. Humor is a presence in the world - like grace - and shines on everybody.

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

Dance in the body you have.

The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing