Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual. — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
Tea-making is a ritual that, like the drink itself, warms the heart somehow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Ritual is to the internal sciences what experiment is to the external sciences. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives. — Phillip Adams Copy Share Image
As humans we need to bond and we need ritual - and that's what catchphrases represent. — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
“Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine. — Michael Kimmelman Copy Share Image
“The essential and similar feature of both procedures and rituals is that they are stereotyped. Once the first transaction has been initiated,… — Eric Berne Copy Share Image
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
Toast was a pointless invention from the Dark Ages. Toast was an implement of torture that caused all those subjected to it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
All rituals are paradoxical and dangerous enterprises, the traditional and improvised, the sacred and the secular. Paradoxical because rituals are conspicuously artificial… — Barbara Myerhoff Copy Share Image
It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual… — William James Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
