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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music...Bodies never lie.
- Agnes De Mille

Listen to the silence as it echoes around you. Ancient spirits dance to it.
- Amber Coverdale Sumrall

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
- Thomas Crum

May our dance always be a bridge to understanding.
May our dance always be a celebration of diversity.
May our dance always be an instrument for peace.
- Laurel Victoria Gray

The curve is more powerful than the sword.
- Mae West

Without dance I can not feel my soul, hear my heart, or see my dreams
- Nahara

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
- Martha Graham

Dance can give the inarticulate a voice.
- Pamela Brown

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who *have* to dance.
- George Balanchine

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul
- Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body
- Martha Graham (1894-1994) US dancer, choreographer

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1553-1592)

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
- Katherine Graham

I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion.
- Gower Champion

A day I don't dance is a day I don't breathe.
-unknown

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, III. 22

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. . . Bodies never lie.
- Agnes de Mille

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.
- Edward Abbey

Beside the fire, as the wood burn black,
A laughing dancer in veils of light,
whose dance transforms the darkness to gold
- Adu Abd Allan ben Abi-l-Khisal

To dance is to be out yourself,
Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.
This is power, it is glory on earth and it is your for the taking.
- Agnes De Mille

We should consider every day lost in which we do not dance at least once.
- Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. --Friedrich Nietzsche

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made
- Ted Shawn

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
- William Butler Yeats

To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul.
- Luigi

Where a dancer stands, that spot is holy ground.
- Martha Graham

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
- Scott Adams

"In your light I learn how to love In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art." - Rumi

Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.
- Randall G Leighton

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
- Author is Mark Twain / Samuel Clements

If you reach for the moon, at least you'll land among the stars.
-Amanda Borden

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan, without the true soul of the dancer.
- Sylvie Guillem

Striving for a connection with the audience is essentail because you are in the moment--it is a give and take relationship. Catching someone's eye during a performance makes it more special.
- Aubrey Lynch

My hope remains to shed light, provoke thought, entertain, and move through dance.
- Dwight Rhoden

The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.
- Bill Irwin

Learning to walk sets you free. Learning to dance gives you the greatest freedom of all: to express with your whole self the person you are.
- Melissa Hayden

I just know that when I go on stage, I give everything I have, not only my legs, not only my feet, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I'm able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I'm able to love because I feel like it.
- Sylvie Gulliem

Dance is an hourly and daily discipline, but it is also lifelong happiness.
- unknown

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
- Agnes De Mille

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.
- Warren G. Bennis (b. 1925) American writer, educator, University of Southern California sociologist

And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury.
- William Blake (1757-1827) British poet, artist, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
- Albert Camus (1913-60) French novelist, essayist, playwright, philosopher

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein (1875-1955) German-born American theoretical physicist, theories of relativity, philosopher

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune intoned in the distance by an invisible player
- Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance.
- D. Morgan

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Bengali writer known for collection of poetry "Gitanjali"

"We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos." D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence (1885-1930) British writer, "Sons and Lovers", "Lady Chatterley's Lover"

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.
- Krishnamurti

Love teaches even asses to dance.
- French Proverb

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Angela Monet

Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Robert Fulghum

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
- William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.
- Bill Austin

You've never felt pain until you've walked in a dancer's shoes
-Unknown

All our young lives we search for someone to love, someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope, all the while wondering if somewhere and somehow there is someone searching for us.
- The Wonder Years

I am lost, and I rejoice in the openness I cannot decide where to go, so for now, I will dance where I am and be. There is no goal, no destination, just wilderness and life and being. I sing and dance and live in the wilderness, and I am home.
- Tziporah

It is not enough to merely leave Egypt. To truly be free of Mitzrayim's grasp, you must emerge from the waters and dance on dry land.
- Tziporah

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
- Unknown

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.
- Diogenes

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world.
- Mata Hari

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.
- Wayne Oates

This is America . We can do anything here.
- Ted Turner

Express your inner beauty, if for no one else, for yourself
- unknown

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person.
- unknown

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
- unknown

If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
- Mark Houlahan

The fear is worse than the pain.
- Shannon Bahr

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter
- Chekov

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure
- Joseph Campbell

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years
- Abraham Lincoln

The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own.
- Unknown

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Chinese Proverb

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Unknown

Far away, there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Unknown

I am only one; I cannot do everything; but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.
- Hellen Keller

I don't know they key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius." -- Larry Leissner

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." -- Frederick Douglas

"If you judge someone, you have no time to love them." -- Mother Teresa

"In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend." -- Unknown

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching." -- Jim Stovall

"It doesn't matter who you are, Or what you have, or do. If you give your very best, the best returns to you."--Starky

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." -- Mother Teresa

"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." --Walter Savage Landor

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward." -- Kurt Vonnegut

"Life is a free circus, all you have to do is pay attention." -- Bill Copeland

"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded." -- Fulton

"Life's Moments - Live each moment of your life to its fullest. Always see Life's glass half filled with Love's finest. Enjoy each Moment as it blossoms deep, within you. Give Love to each soul you touch, so they will love you, too." - CC-Russ

"Little girl to smaller brother: "Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present." - From Readers Digest

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." -- Lorraine Hansberry

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." --Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing but the heart can change the heart." -- Carroll O'Connor

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within." --Maya Angelou

"Nothing lasts forever, not even troubles." -- Arnold H. Glasgow

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar." -- Helen Keller

"One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members."-- Holly's favorite quote by Henry Van Dyke

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor." -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it." -- William Raspberry

"Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." -- G.B. Stern

"Single parenting is like taking a trip without a road map. We don't always know where we'll end up, but the best part is taking the time to enjoy the ride!" -- Anita

"Some kids do what you say. Some kids do what you say do not do. But all kids do what you do." --Unknown

"The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day." -- M. Grundler

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time." -- Abraham Lincoln

"The central question is not do we know what to do, but rather will we do what we know." -- Gary Bunch

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." --Henri L. Bergson

"The great advantage of telling the truth is that one's so much more likely to sound convincing." -- Susan Howatch

"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now." -- Bill Cosby

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certianly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it."-- Theodore Roosevelt

"With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." -- Jim Loehr

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." -- Unknown

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.--Marcus Aurelius

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. - Emerson

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. - Stephen Covey

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy. - George Matthew Adams

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. - William James

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi

Life is like an echo. We get from it what we put in to it and, just like an echo, it often gives us much more. - Boris Lauer-Leonardi

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. – John Quincy Adams

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.--Archimedes

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.--William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

A thing is bigger for being shared.- Gaelic Proverb

The only gift is a portion of thyself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is by spending one’s self that one becomes rich.- Sarah Bernardt

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more that he gave.-- Henry Ward Beecher

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.--Eleanor Roosevelt

There is nothing like a dream to create the future. - Victor Hugo

Remember that the ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic was built by professionals. - Anonymous

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader

The heart is wiser than the intellect. -J.G. Holland

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. -unknown

"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable." -Benjamin Franklin

• "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -The 14th Dalai Lama

• "They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel." -Carl W. Buechner

"Don't be afraid to be amazing." -Andy Offutt Irwin

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it The Present." -Babatunde Olatunji

"He who does not dance does not know what happens." -Jesus (Gnostic texts)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mohandas Ghandi

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -Yogi Berra

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough. -Helen Keller

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."-Benjamin Franklin

Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. -Henry David Thoreau

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. -Sue Ebaugh

"Even the longest journey begins with a single step." -anonymous

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." -Henry Ford

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ship's are built for." - anonymous

In thought, faith / In word, wisdom / In deed, courage / In life, service / -unknown

We’ve got to get crankin’! -Prof. Forbes

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -Norman Vincent Peale

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to who show their good qualities in action. –Aristotle

The only gift is a portion of thyself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me. -Erma Bombeck

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain. -Helen Keller

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. -Helen Keller

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. -Mother Teresa

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. -Sarah Bernhardt

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. -Ben Sweetland

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. -Rabbi Harold Kushner

No man can become rich without himself enriching others. -Andrew Carnegie

Be the change you want to see in the world. –Gandhi

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. -Norman Vincent Peale

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.'' - Henry David Thoreau

"All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.'' - Michael Carr

"If you see people without a smile today, give them one of yours.'' - Unknown

"Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic." - Don Ward

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.'' - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.'' - The Land Before Time

"Don't go through life, grow through life. '' - Eric Butterworth

"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.'' - Henry Ford

"Patience is power. With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes silk.'' - Chinese Proverb

"Action is eloquence.'' - William Shakespeare

"It is never too late to be what you might have been.'' - George Eliot

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized.'' - Sun Tzu

"The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now. ''- Robert Ingersoll

"Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now? '' - Richard Carlson

"The most beautiful action in the world is to love. The second most beautiful is to give.'' - Bertha von Suttner

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.--Source Unknown

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.--Helen Keller

Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.--Source Unknown

Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted.--Marcus Aurelius

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb

That which we persist in doing becomes easier - not that the nature of the task has changed, but our ability to do has increased. – Emerson

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – E.E. Cummings

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. - Stephen Covey

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. – John Quincy Adams

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.--Martin Luther King, Jr.