Dance Is Life Quotes

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

Motivational, Change, Moving On

Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

James Howe

Dance, Dirty, Life Is Short

James Howe (2005). “Totally Joe”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

Jerome Robbins

Dance, Dancing, Done

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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.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life, Change, Dance

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Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

Robert Breault

Dance, Moving, Dancing

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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.

Rajneesh

Life, Dance, Mean

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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

Barbara De Angelis

Inspirational, Life, Change

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Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

Eckhart Tolle

Life, Dance, Dancing

Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.79, Penguin

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Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythym of your life.

Jacques d'Amboise

Dance, Breathing, Dancing

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Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Martha Graham

Inspirational, Dance, Art

"Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

Pearl Primus

Life, Dance, Strong

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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.

Martha Graham

Positive, Uplifting, Dance

"The Life and Work of Martha Graham". Book by Agnes de Mille, p. 264, 1991.

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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Wayne Dyer

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.

Baker Brownell

Dance, Art, Movement

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Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

Martha Graham

Motivational, Dance, Song

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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

Life, Inspiring, Dance

Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Think on These Things”, p.25, Harper Collins

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On many occasions when I am dancing I've felt touched by something sacred. In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists !

Michael Jackson

Dance, Dancing, Sacred

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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Vicki Baum

Happiness, Happy, Dance

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

John Philip Sousa

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Satchel Paige

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery - what it all means, the way the little bone near the ankle relates itself to the floor for a perfect stance, a perfect plie.

Martha Graham

Dance, Discovery, Dancing

"Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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

Martha Graham

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration: A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction". Book by Kevin Nelson, p. 11, 1999.

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The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Curt Sachs

Dance, Mother, Art

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You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Rajneesh

Beauty, Dance, Love Life

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