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

And when you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

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 be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.”

“Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but the living room…”

“Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience.” 

 “When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”

In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds.  A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

So the darkness shall be light, and the stillness dancing.

 “We can’t choose the music that life gives us, but we can choose how to dance to it.”

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.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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.

“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. […] Dance when you’re perfectly free.”

“Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.”

“We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifest the very thing we love about ourselves so that they may see it and love us too.”

“If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.”

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”

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

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”

“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.”

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

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.

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.