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"Dance isn't a form it's a way of life." ~anonymous

"Dancers are the athletes of God." ~Albert Einstein

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

"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

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another." ~anonymous

"Behind each victory is a long train of suffering!" ~anonymous

"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness blend in with your sweat" ~anonymous

"Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision." ~Merryl Brockway

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."

"Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion."

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience." ~M. Louis

"When in doubt......dance!"

"Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?" ~anonymous

"Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance." ~Shirley Maclaine

"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart." ~Unknown

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." ~Jaques D'ambroise

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
             --Mihkail Baryshnikov

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. --Charles Baudelaire

There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. --Vicki Baum

Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. --Samuel Beckett

When I dance, I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole, that is why I dance. --Hans Bos

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! --Constanze

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance. --Jacques d'Amboise

There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. --Edwin Denby

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

To live is to dance, to dance is to live. --Charles Schulz [in Peanuts (Snoopy speaking)

A day I don't dance is a day I don't live. --Anonymous, Tunisian dancer

Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty. --Source unknown

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.  ~Havelock Ellis

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.  ~Hopi Indian Saying

And this is my heart:

Dancing is my divine service. -Cookie Fajardo

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