Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

The world would be a better place if everyone learned to dance.

Once you get the kids raised and the mortgage paid off and accomplish what you wanted to do in life, there's a great feeling of: 'Hey, I'm free as a bird.'

It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life.

Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'

It's not an option that you have to buy something in my line. You can hang out, take pictures, shoot video, shout out loud all crazy, whatever you want really, because it's not about money for me. I'm happy to do what I do!

Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.

I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!

This dance is the joy of existence.

I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

I love to shake my hips, my hair, and my boobs. It's all about having fun and sharing your spirit with other people.

I think if you can dance and be free and not embarrassed, you can rule the world.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.

The pleasure is our choice.

To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well...In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.

The greatest happiness is to sneeze when you want to.