To sing to the deaf, to talk with the dumb, and to dance for the blind are three foolish things.
—Indian Proverb
When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, “Okay, choose”. Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
—Agnes de Mille (1905–93) American Dancer, Choreographer
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head.
—Terence (c.195–159 BCE) Roman Comic Dramatist
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
A woman who dances too much gets ill from little work.
—French Proverb
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s a dance to dance or any joy to unconfine.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
The rich man never dances badly.
—African Proverb
An old cat will never learn to dance.
—Moroccan Proverb
You dance better with a full belly than with a new dress.
—French Proverb
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
You cannot dance well on only one leg.
—African Proverb
If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing.
—African Proverb
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
—T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than “you” ever could by conscious thought. “You” supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
If you believe you are plenty, you will validate that belief and create plenty of abundance.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Who dances at the wedding, weeps at the funeral.
—Yiddish Proverb
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mother’s womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite.
—Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) American Dancer, Choreographer
You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart.
—Indian Proverb
Nothing is more revealing than movement.
—Martha Graham (1894–1991) American Choreographer
He dances well to whom fortune pipes
—Italian Proverb
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, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his “divine service.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
You can’t lie when you dance. It’s so direct. You do what is in you. You can’t dance out of the side of your mouth.
—Shirley MacLaine (b.1934) American Actor, Dancer, Author, Activist
There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
—Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–98) British Anglican Author, Mathematician, Clergyman, Photographer, Logician
Out of abundance and still abundance remained.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant—in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Don’t dance on a volcano.
—French Proverb
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls; it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist
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