I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.” — Dimitris Xygalatas Copy Share Image
“Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.” — Luis Gonçalves 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
The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.” — Peadar Ó Guilín Copy Share Image
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
I may not believe in long-drawn rituals but I believe in a supernatural force that gives me strength. This can take the… — Sudha Chandran Copy Share Image
“India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange… — Hanadi Falki Copy Share Image
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
“We use rituals in our Moon Circle in order to set the evening apart as a sacred space. We use it to… — Lucy Aitkenread Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder 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
“But rituals turn us all into fucking idiots. Like those birds that sleep with their heads facing backwards because their ancestors slept… — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
“Music to heal: To heal problems related to children, honour, getting a position in life, relationships with father and government - Raag… — Deepanshu Giri Copy Share Image
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
One of the delights of the new age is that it's a turning of consciousness to give us permission to look beyond… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual,… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“These were her rituals, the rutines that made her feel alive and connected. Without them, where would she be? Lost” — Ben Sherwood Copy Share Image
“He who does not believe and yet follows the rituals teaches his children to be hypocrits (From: Kinderpraat)” — A.J. Beirens Copy Share Image
![“I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual, that my daughter calls my father "Baba" and my mother "Mama" is a ritual. There are common African-American rituals that are a part of my experience. If I ever get married some day…” quote by Jamilah Lemieux](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b40/jamilah-lemieux-61755_big-mama_i-think-that-the-language-that-we-use-is_3108443.jpg)
