The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

It is the persistence of dance in helping people to resist, reduce, and escape stress since early humanity that attests to its efficacy.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dance is not a universal 'language' but many languages and dialects. There are close to 6000 verbal languages, and probably that many dance languages.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

Among its many uses, dance/movement therapy aims to help people overcome trauma, often by nonverbally bringing the elements of the experience to the fore.

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

It's the imperfections that make everything perfect.

Don't watch the clock do what it does. Keep going.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

Vices are simply overworked virtues.

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.