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"Those who danced were considered to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music"

"Man has ears but hears not, man has eyes but sees not"-- King David

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. -- Mahatma Ghandi

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music" -- Angela Monet

"The greatest good we can do for others is not to share our riches with them, but to reveal their own." -- Unknown

"It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. The listener has no choice. It is like hypnotism." -L.V.Beethoven

"Middle Eastern Dance reveres the body as a Temple of the Soul, a journey into the spirit"

"While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot seperate myself from life. I can only be joyful and whole. That is why I dance"

"The Universe is made up of stories, not atoms" -- Muriel Rukeyser

"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 of time this expression is unique. And if you block it it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it." --Martha Graham

Why not whip the teacher when the student misbehaves? -- Diogenes

"The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought of eternity." ~ The Urantia Book

blnkstrwhite "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" -- Erin Majors

"Dancing in all forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"May our dance always be a bridge to understanding, May our dance always be a celebration of diversity, May our dance always be an instrument of peace." -Laurel Victoria Gray

"The truest expression of a people is in it's dances and it's music. Bodies never lie" --Agnes de Mille

"Art is the communication of exctasy" -- Sergei Ospensky

"Sanity is madness put to good uses." -- George Santayana

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are" -- Kirkegaard

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh" -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844- 1900)

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." -- Scott Adams

"Man has ears, but hears not. Man has eyes, but sees not." -- King David

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience" -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"There is room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you're your own person" -- Tori Amos

"Dance is a metaphor for life. As we are born, we are destined to move in life through time and space. As we learn to dance, we are also learning to move through time and space. Thus, the process of learning to dance can bring us information about living our lives, if we allow it to. We can learn how to move through our lives with fearless autonomy, grace and spirit; to flow with the melody line, be in the stillness or ride the chaos; to overcome the fear that puts us on the sidelines. We can learn to listen to the voice in our head that says, 'I CAN DANCE!' " -- DELILAH

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks inside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." Carl Gustav Jung

"I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works." -- Tori Amos , Chicago Tribune June 25, 1996

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger" -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in" Amy Lowell

"Love is-- seeking to make another person happy"

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