By Poushali Ganguly
Last Updated: 1/8/2013
Feel the beat and the
rhythm, it's time to let go of all those
emotions and simply dance away to
glory. Dance is known to liberate,
and eventually lead you away from the
stress and humdrum of life.
Still not inspired? Here's our collection to help
you get there...
Dance is an art, a movement, an expression which often
tells a story.
It is by far, a means of nonverbal communication and is known
to
release pent up emotions, and is a perfect stress buster.
What do
you do, when you know words will never be enough to express
the emotions you
feel?
Dance, yes dance and only dance. Dance has a way of speaking
through
movements, of bringing up emotions, and eventually pouring it out
into
the open. Whether you agree or not, it is one of the most
liberating
experiences ever.
"He who would learn to fly one
day must first learn to stand and walk
and run and climb and dance; one
cannot fly into flying." - Friedrich
Nietzsche
"You may shoot me with
your words,
You may cut me with your eyes.
You may kill me with your
hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise." - Maya Angelou
"Dancing
faces you towards Heaven,
whichever direction you turn." - Sweetpea
Tyler
"To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."
- Indian
Proverb
"You know you're dancing when tears of pain and happiness
blend in
with your sweat." - Anonymous
"In life as in dance: Grace
glides on blistered feet."
- Alice Abrams
"Dancing can reveal all the
mystery that music conceals."
- Charles Baudelaire
"Every day brings a
chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your
shoes, and dance." - Oprah
Winfrey
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
Great
dancers are great because of their passion." - Martha
Graham
"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." - Jacques D'Amboise
"Dance like
there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt.
Sing like there's
nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on
earth." - William W.
Purkey
"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 is the loftiest, the most
moving, the most beautiful of the
arts. For it is no mere translation or
abstraction of life. It is life
itself" - Henry
Havelock
"Dance - an art form. The body - an instrument. Learn to
play the
instrument and master the art form" - Debbie Dee
"There are
shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them."
- Vicki
Baum
"Dancing is like dreaming with your feet" - Constanze
"People
come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them" - Judith Jamison
"One
must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a
dancing star."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It's not who you are that holds you back,
it's who you think you
are." - Author Unknown
"The dance: a minimum of
explanation, a minimum of anecdotes, and a
maximum of sensations." - Maurice
Béjart
"Dance for yourself, if someone understands good. If not then
no
matter, go right on doing what you love." - Lois Hurst
"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
"All that is important is
this one moment in movement. Make the moment
important, vital, and worth
living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed
and unused." - Martha
Graham
"Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to
me."
- Steven Rogers
"In conversation as in dance, each is the mirror
of other." - Author Unknown
"Dancing with your partner, for that two and
a half minutes, you are
in love with each other. You're corresponding with
each other by the
moves that you make. It's a love affair, between you and
your partner
and the music." - Frankie Manning
"I see dance being used
as communication between body and soul, to
express what is too deep to find
for words." - Ruth St. Denis
That said, if your bored, or you are feeling
weighed down by the