"I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to."
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"Dancing is the body made poetic."
"It's beautiful to dance alone, beautiful to dance with your children, beautiful to dance with your friends, beautiful to dance with your lover, or even collectively. But the ultimate dance is the one we do by ourselves, when we make ourselves known to God."
"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf."
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
"Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths."
"We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos."
"Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain."
"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul."
"You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God."
"Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it."
"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
"At the still point, there the dance is."
"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure."
"The Gods have meant That I should dance And in some mystic hour I shall move to unheard rhythms Of the cosmic orchestra of heaven And you will know the language Of my wordless poems And will come to me For that is why I dance."
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."
"You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open."
"Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet."
"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?"