Susan Polis Schutz Quotes

I had a dog who loved flowers. Briskly she went through the fields, yet paused for the honeysuckle or the rose, her dark head and her wet nose touching the face of every one with its petals of silk with its fragrance rising into the air where the bees, their bodies heavy with pollen hovered - and easily she adored every blossom not in the serious careful way that we choose this blossom or that blossom the way we praise or don't praise - the way we love or don't love - but the way we long to be - that happy in the heaven of earth - that wild, that loving.

I don't think existence wants you to be serious. I have not seen a serious tree. I have not seen a serious bird. I have not seen a serious sunrise. I have not seen a serious starry night. It seems they are all laughing in their own ways, dancing in their own ways. We may not understand it, but there is a subtle feeling that the whole existence is a celebration.

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

I will always dance in the street.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.

Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops.

It's better to dance than to march through life.

Look at the flowers-for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run.

Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.

You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams.

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

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

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

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 celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.