Dancing (quotes)

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Ode to dancing

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Dancing is one of the great arts

  • Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. Havelock Ellis
  • It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. Shanna LaFleur
  • Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn
  • A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. Robert McKee
  • Music,  Creative expression,  Beauty,  Art
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Dancing is poetry in motion

  • Dancing is the poetry of the foot. John Dryden
  • The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. Mata Hari
  • Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. John Wain
  • Dancing is silent poetry. Simonides
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Dancing is one of the purest forms of expression

  • The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. Agnes de Mille
  • Dance is one of the most powerful forms of magical ritual… It is an outer expression of the inner spirit. Ted Andrews
  • There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. Martha Graham
  • I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be. Martha Graham
  • Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos. Lyall Watson
  • To dance is to reach for a word that doesn’t exist, To sing the heart song of a thousand generations, To feel the meaning of a moment in time. Beth Jones
  • I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. Ruth St. Denis
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Dancing is a sublime thing …

  • Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. Charles Baudelaire
  • Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. Martha Graham
  • To touch, to move, to inspire. This is the true gift of dance. Aubrey
  • I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. Friedrich Nietzsche
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…  a thing of beauty …

  • Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.
  • Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point. Abigail Adams
  • It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful; it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful. Kristy Nilsson
  • In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. Martha Graham
  • To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.  Agnes De Mille
  • Beauty
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… a thing of joy …

  • The dance is over, the applause subsided, but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever. M. Tory
  • On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined. Lord Byron
  • While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. This is why I dance. Hans Bos
  • In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
  • Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest. F. B. Meyer
  • Joy
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… a thing of the soul …

  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul.  Martha Graham
  • Movement never lies.  It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it.  Martha Graham
  • I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.  Ruth St. Denis
  • The soul never ages. My soul dances without my feet. I am the music. Alev Oguz
  • The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.  Isadora Duncan
  • The soul
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… a thing of the heart …

  • Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.
  • You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
  • To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. Hopi Indian Saying
  • It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. Xiaolu Guo
  • Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. Martha Graham
  • The heart
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… a thing of peace…

  • Stillness within finds stillness without as the framework through which all activity occurs. Breathe deep and full. Relax always. Grace unfolds from within to dance about in joyous recognition. Rob Campbell
  • Peace has to dance and silence has to sing. And unless your innermost realization becomes a laughter, something is still lacking. Something still has to be done. Osho
  • Inner peace
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… a thing rich in emotion …

  • Next time you’re mad, try dancing out your anger. Terri Guillemets
  • Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. Martha Graham
  • It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful; it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful. Kristy Nilsson
  • I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion. Gower Champion
  • Emotions
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… a thing close to heaven …

  • Dancers are the messengers of the gods. Martha Graham
  • I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. Terri Guillemets
  • Heaven
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… a thing of flying feet …

  • To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
  • Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! Constanze
  • Ballroom dancing: the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them.
  • They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. Terence
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… a hidden language

  • Dance – no translation needed. Kristy Nilsson
  • Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham
  • Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. George Borodin
  • Language
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Dancing is about fun and letting go

  • There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Edwin Denby
  • We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. Japanese Proverb
  • Put a little fun into your life. Try dancing. Kathryn Murray
  • Fun,  Letting go
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Dancing is a short-cut to happiness …

  • There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum
  • Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
  • Research shows that material purchases only boost your happiness levels temporarily. Experiences bring more overall joy. Enjoy safari holidays, learn a language, join a dancing group. Richard Carlson
  • Happiness
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… for to dance is to be fully alive

  • We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. H. Lawrence
  • You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. Merce Cunningham
  • Being fully alive
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In dancing, there is an element of wonderful madness

  • There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. Edwin Denby
  • And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. P. Lovecraft
  • No sane man will dance. Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Insanity
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Get up and dance

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Therefore, get up and dance …

  • Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
  • Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
  • Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. Kurt Vonnegut
  • Exercise, play, move. Stretch, feel, reach, sweat. Skip, dance, hug! Use the body God gave you, don’t let it rot. Terri Guillemets
  • Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Dave Barry
  • Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while. Simon Fowler
  • Dance till the stars come down from the rafters, Dance, Dance, Dance ’till you drop. H. Auden
  • Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire
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… even if it means stepping on toes

  • You can’t be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing. Lewis Freedman
  • Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone’s toes, pretty much the same as life. Robert Brault
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Dance like nobody is watching

  • You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money… You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching… Susanna Clark
  • You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth. William W. Purkey
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Each day is an opportunity to dance

  • Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes and dance. Oprah Winfrey
  • We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let’s dance. James Howe
  • Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.
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Dancing metaphors

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Dancing provides many wonderful metaphors for life

  • Always be like a water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along the wind which touches its surface. Santosh Kalwar
  • Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up. Mark Twain
  • It’s time we saw sex as the truly sacred art that it is. A deep meditation, a holy communion and a dance with the force of creation. Marcus Allen
  • You must carry a chaos inside you to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dancing is the world’s favourite metaphor. Kristy Nilsson
  • Metaphors to live by
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Life itself is like dancing

  • Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone’s toes, pretty much the same as life. Robert Brault
  • The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius
  • Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Don Miguel Ruiz
  • The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara DeAngelis
  • Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. H. J. Brown, Jr
  • When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world. Scott Cloud Lee
  • Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world. Robert McKee
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Make your life a dance of abandon

  • Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn’t seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance. Whitney Scott
  • Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. Thomas Carlyle
  • The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Watts
  • To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. Osho
  • When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. Iveta Cherneva
  • You will find meaning in life only if you create it. It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to be sung.  It is a dance to be danced…  Osho
  • Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you. Louis Horst
  • You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life. Rajneesh
  • We have so much to celebrate!! There is a permanent party rocking the Universe! We are all standing on one giant revolving dance floor- get out there and do your thing and do it well! Dance the dance of life, and let your own unique and beautiful rhythm flow. Hey, reckon you can’t dance? Did you know that six trillion actions occur in the human body every second, every single one of which is working in correlation with all the others! This infinite organizing power is working for you at any given second, how is that for coordination! All you need is in you. You are already dancing inside now you just let it show! Katharine Dever
  • Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free. Rumi
  • Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Dance on the edge of mystery. Alan Cohen
  • Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. Red Haircrow
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Dance with life, allowing it to lead

  • Bringing a spiritual dimension into all that we do is essential for ending the struggle and dancing with life. Our body and our minds can take us only so far, our spirit can lead us all the way Home. Susan Jeffers
  • Dancing with life is moving into the flow of our experiences – good or bad – with a feeling of harmony, trust, guidance and love. Susan Jeffers
  • Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
  • Watching quietly, listening softly, dance with life, and be. Ariel Controna- Decene- Diversonac
  • Choose to dance lightly with life. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • I relax my consciousness. I unset my heart. I wear the world as a loose garment. I learn to dance with grace on the constantly shifting carpet. I go with the flow. Susan Jeffers
  • Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet. Thomas Crum
  • Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life’s only true lessons are writ small in the margin. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  • There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One with Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer and you are the dance. Eckhart Tolle
  • Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to. Susan Jeffers
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Dance to your own music and your own rhythm

  • A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within. Anthony de Mello
  • When you dance to your own rhythm, life taps its toes to your beat. Terri Guillemets
  • You’ve got to sing like you don’t need the money… You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching… Susanna Clark
  • I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within. Anthony de Mello
  • There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary wings. Barbara Lazear Ascher
  • Think for yourself, and allow others the privilege of doing so too. We all dance to the beat of a different drum. There are few absolute ‘rights’ and ‘wrongs’ in the world. You need to live your life your way – the way that’s right for you. Marc and Angel Chernoff
  • Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering. Steve Maraboli
  • You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less travelled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in. Mandy Hale
  • There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage. Barbara Lazear Ascher
  • Life is a song,  Music
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Dance in the rain as well as the sunshine

  • Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain.
  • For every day that there is sunshine, there will be days of rain, it’s how we dance within them both that shows our love and pain. Joey Tolbert
  • Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… Susan Polis Shutz
  • Life becomes easier if you learn to dance in the rain
  • Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain. Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. Joan Marques
  • Life is not about getting through the storms, but about dancing in the rain. Bunny Armstrong
  • Life is sunshine and storm
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Life and death is a kind of dance

  • For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance. Kahlil Gibran
  • Buddha once said “This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky.” Deepak Chopra
  • We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing through each other as doorways. Marge Piercy
  • I don’t have a goal, because existence has no goal. It simply is, flowering, blossoming, dancing – but don’t ask why. Just an overflow of energy, for no reason at all. I am with existence. Rajneesh
  • Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can’t name the tune. Deepak Chopra
  • Death
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Our interactions with each other are a kind of dance

  • Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. Gustave Flaubert
  • A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time. Anne Taylor Fleming
  • From the soul’s perspective, both helpee and helper are just hanging out together – complementary roles in a dance. Without helpees, what would the helpers have to do? Susan Jeffers
  • Our interactions with one another reflect a dance between love and fear. Ram Dass
  • Love is a lot like dancing-you just surrender to the music.
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In fact, everything in the universe is doing its dance

  • Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. Maya Angelou
  • Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that: energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance. Gabrielle Roth
  • Do you see that everything in the Universe is simply doing its dance, expressing itself the only way it can… and this is happening in every moment. Seeing this clearly brings instant relaxation and peace. Why? Because if everything is doing the only dance it can, what is there to worry about? Michael Jeffreys
  • When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash–at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the “newness”, the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. Thomas Merton
  • The universe
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Dancing is seen everywhere in nature

  • I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o’er vales and hills. When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodil; beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering and dancing in the breeze. William Wordsworth
  • My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening. Rabindranath Tagore
  • Not hammer-strokes, but the dance of the water, sings the pebbles into perfection. Rabindranath Tagore
  • The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. Mike Dolan
  • Nature
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Dancing is synonymous with music

  • Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. Ezra Pound
  • Musicality is when the dancers’ movements appear to create the music – and not the other way around. Kristy Nilsson
  • If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you’re hearing. Judith Jamison
  • Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. Charles Baudelaire
  • When the music changes, so does the dance. African proverb
  • Music
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Dancing is synonymous with laughter

  • Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. Jarod Kintz
  • Watching a child’s laughter teaches a candle’s flame how to dance. SunWolf
  • Peace has to dance and silence has to sing. And unless your innermost realization becomes a laughter, something is still lacking. Something still has to be done. Osho
  • Laughter
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Learning to live is the same as learning to dance

  • I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living…. In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one’s being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. Martha Graham
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Meditation is like dancing

  • We could say that meditation doesn’t have a reason or doesn’t have a purpose. In this respect, it’s unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music, we don’t do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. Alan Watts
  • Meditation
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On a lighter note

  • After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. Ann Richards
  • Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. P. Lovecraft
  • Ballroom dancing: the art of getting your feet out of the way faster than your partner can step on them.
  • Dance like there’s nobody watching. Or filming. Never mind that creepy guy in the corner with the camcorder. Just keep dancing. Jarod Kintz
  • Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw
  • Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to “Y.M.C.A.? Dave Sokolowski
  • Driving a race car is like dancing with a chainsaw. Cale Yarborough
  • Football isn’t a contact sport, it’s a collision sport; dancing is a contact sport. …Duffy’ Daugherty
  • Girl : Something you look damn  silly dancing without
  • God is good but never dance in a small boat. Proverb
  • He makes you feel more danced against than with. Sally Poplin
  • I cannot sing dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. David Letterman
  • I could dance with you until the cows come home; on second thought I’d rather dance with the cows until you come home. Groucho Marx
  • I don’t dance, but I’d love to hold you while you do.
  • I don’t quite know how to respond to people who say that I dance like my genitals are on fire. I usually just blush and brush aside their flattery. Jarod Kintz
  • I enjoy a glass of wine each night for its health benefits. The other glasses are for my witty comebacks and flawless dance moves.
  • I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms. Steven Wright
  • I grew up with six brothers; that’s how I learned to dance – waiting for the bathroom.   Bob Hope
  • I was doing some musical research and I found out it was actually white people that came up with rap music only they call it square dancing.   Bruce Baum
  • I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy. Mitch Hedberg
  • If a man doesn’t know how to dance he doesn’t know how to make love, there I said it! Craig Ferguson
  • If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
  • If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw
  • If you dance with a grizzly bear you had better let him lead. Law of Volunteering
  • If you must keep groaning please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to. Ashleigh Brilliant
  • In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn’t danced on TV. Erma Bombeck
  • It is a truth universally acknowledge that there will always be a gentleman to dance with, except at just the moment when you require one most. Anna Godbersen
  • It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Rod Serling
  • Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons and necking in the parlour. Groucho Marx
  • Let’s be honest: Isn’t a lot what we call tap dancing really just nerves? Jack Handey
  • Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn’t seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance. Whitney Scott
  • Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.
  • Modern dancing is old fashioned. Samuel Goldwyn
  • Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies. Bob Hope
  • My father died dancing – on the end of a rope. Curly Howard
  • My father originated the limbo dance… trying to get into a pay toilet. Slappy White
  • Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe (it’s always best to take your shoes off first). John D. Rhodes
  • Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion. Martha Graham
  • People say I have the legs of a dancer. But until they find the rest of the body the cops have nothing on me man! Stewart Francis
  • Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek. Tom Robbins
  • Real men don’t lift weights, they lift women. Every male ballet dancer
  • Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Faith Whittlesey
  • Some men are all feet at a dance; others are all hands.
  • Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing… she goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. Henry Youngman
  • Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips. Terri Guillemets
  • Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. Steve Martin
  • The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play. Yiddish Proverb
  • The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good. Polish proverb
  • The night-club was so crowded I was dancing with the girl behind me, cheek to cheek.
  • The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops. Robert Helpmann
  • There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum
  • They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. Terence
  • Those who can’t dance say the music is no good. Jamaican Proverb
  • Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. George Carlin
  • Timing has an awful lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance. Proverb
  • To live is to dance to dance is to live.   Snoopy
  • To me boxing is like a ballet except there’s no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other. Jack Handey
  • Try everything once except incest and folk dancing. Thomas Beecham
  • Waltz a little faster, darling, they’re playing a rumba.
  • We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. Japanese Proverb
  • When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys. Ray Romano
  • Wives are people who feel they don’t dance enough. Groucho Marx
  • You can be a king or a street sweeper but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. Robert Alton Harris
  • You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger. Chuck Palahniuk
  • You leave white people alone in constant isolation for thousands of years you know what their musical contribution is going to be?    Greg Pro
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