"After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor."

-- D. A. Pennebaker

#Giving Quotes #Sacred Quotes #Labor Quotes

“As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.”
“The Goddess does not rule the world; She is the world.”
“Sit loosely in the saddle.”
“I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.”

Source : "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.
“When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized. ... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tribes have very clear conceptions of their traditional boundaries, they maintain their rights and their claim sovereignty over the lands according to their own honored traditions and tribal elders. And so, you can go out there on the reservation, and there might be a reservation boundary established by the United States. But then there's traditional land boundaries.”
“Sacrifice. I'd never been in a position where I was number one on the call sheet, and everything was in my lap. I worked 16 hour days, and I was just not the lead of any film, it was a film about Jesse Owens, one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century. It was a whole new type of responsibility. It was a big weight, and I wanted to do him justice, especially in reviving him after 80 years.”
“Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.”
“Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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