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Life Quotes by Martha Graham
- ...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is…
- I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it…
- I'm asked so often whether I believe in life after death. I do believe in the sanctity of life, the continuity of life and of…
- The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with,…
- You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety…
- One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should…
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of…
- You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
- We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are…
- People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that,…
- The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
- In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.
- We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the…
- My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.
- There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle