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Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Martha Graham

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
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Desire Face Faith Invitation Obstacle Perfection Performance Practice Vision
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 the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
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Area Athlete Dance God Learning Live Oneself Practice
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
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Life One Liner Respect Tree
No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.
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Animal Body Human See Ugly
Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Acceptance Age Glory Maturity Time
In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.
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Art Breathe End One Liner
Misery is a communicable disease.
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Communication Misery Sick
A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity. I won’t settle for anything less.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Dance Listening Movement Myself Necessary Pay Terrible
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can’t stop.
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Believe Day Future Myself Past Time
My childhood years were a balance of dark and light.
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Children Darkness Time
The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Age Dance Live Magic Performance Reason
Discipline is liberation.
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Discipline Liberty One Liberty
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.
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Death Live Ourselves Past People Time
Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for — liberation.
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Dance Discipline Freedom Liberty Technique
Some of you are doomed to be artists.
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Artist Deep One Liner
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.
MARTHA GRAHAM

Body Life Respect Sacred Treat Yourself

Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

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