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  • #1
    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    “Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
    Sherrilyn Kenyon, Acheron

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #3
    Martha Graham
    “Dance is the hidden language of the soul”
    Martha Graham

  • #4
    Osho
    “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

  • #5
    Martha Graham
    “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

  • #6
    Martha Graham
    “Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.”
    Martha Graham

  • #7
    “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

  • #8
    Martha Graham
    “Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. ”
    Martha Graham

  • #9
    Mikhail Baryshnikov
    “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
    Mikhail Baryshnikov

  • #10
    “To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking”
    Agnes De Mille

  • #11
    Roman Payne
    “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
    Roman Payne

  • #12
    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
    “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, The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows

  • #13
    “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

  • #14
    “When it's finals week and you've been studying for five hours straight, you need three things to get you through the nigh.The biggest Slurpee you can find,half cherry half Coke.Pajama pants, the kind that have been washed so many times they are tissue-paper thin. And finally,dance breaks. Lots of dance breaks.”
    Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer

  • #15
    William Stafford
    “Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music”
    William Stafford

  • #16
    Martha Graham
    “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 it will be lost.”
    Martha Graham

  • #17
    “You don't enter a dance studio and say "I can't do that." If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?”
    Judith Jamison, Dancing Spirit
    tags: dance

  • #18
    Ali Shariati
    “I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .”
    Ali Shariati

  • #19
    Paul    Taylor
    “Most dancers I know, especially the talented and successful ones, seem to possess [my dog's] knack for living moment to moment. You see, their idea of time is related to those infinitely short moments when they are onstage being their superselves.”
    Paul Taylor, Private Domain: An Autobiography

  • #20
    “There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy.”
    Alvin Ailey, Revelations: the Autobiography
    tags: dance, joy

  • #21
    David Levithan
    “Failure is always louder than success. But there is an accumulation of all the things you don’t do wrong, and that becomes your confidence. You can even get to the point where that confidence lasts longer than the dance. Seconds at first. Then minutes. Then maybe it’ll be there when you’re walking into a party, or meeting people after a show. You know you have something desirable, and you know you can move.”
    David Levithan, How They Met, and Other Stories
    tags: dance, life



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