"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, and it should be treated with honor."

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Source : Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

Martha Graham

#Honor Quotes #Body Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“Constant repetition dulls receptivity.”
“Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?”
“By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.”
“One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)
“I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the finger in their face and say you helped this happen.”
“When you completely accept this moment, when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way... It is a shift from identification with form --the thought or the emotion-- to being and recognizing yourself as that which has no form -- spacious awareness.”
“Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.”
“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.”

Source : Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso

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