Martha Graham Quotes

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

For so many centuries, the exchange of gifts has held us together. It has made it possible to bridge the abyss where language struggles.

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

All the world's a stage.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

Security is a kind of death.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.