Paulo Coelho Quotes

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

I am more expressive when I dance.

I need someone to shut off my brain, and turn on my heart.

...looking at him makes her feel like laughing all over - as if she could laugh not just with her mouth but with her eyes, her heart, her very limbs.

If I'm having a challenging moment, I jump for joy. Literally. After a minute, I feel better, and after a few minutes, I'm really happy. Everything else just drops off. It gets me out of my head and into my body, and it makes me feel present. Everyone has challenges. But if you know your strengths and expand on them, you’re going to radiate.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

You live as long as you dance.

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.

If you believe in chakras - head and heart - I think singing opens them up, like a wide open door.

I tell you, gospel music is very uplifting. It's great. It's just a lot of fun to write, and it's wonderful for the heart, soul, mind, and spirit. It's just great.

Yoga is sort of like acting because it's something you don't really know about - how it happens, why it works. You just do the poses, and you get the benefits. I like sharing that. And I think I have a talent for touching people, getting them in tune with their bodies.

Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.

When I dance, I go to a different side of who I am. I feel like I can solve a problem without knowing I'm solving one.

Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

When I dance, I escape the present and become one with my soul.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

When we sing, our hearts can lift and fly, over the troubled waters and over the years.

EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards and dark-green fields; on—on—and out of sight. Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted; And beauty came like the setting sun: My heart was shaken with tears; and horror Drifted away ... O, but Everyone Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.