“a marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat. — Gina Gershon Copy Share Image
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“I felt fresh and ready for anything. Well, except for maybe a sacrificial ritual, but no one was ever ready for that.” — Deanna Chase 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
“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
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
“Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
“They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped,'” he said. “They say “misdeed,' “inappropriate touching,' “mistake.' That's… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Women are storytellers, they are communicators. They'll go and sit around a table and talk about their first date, their first smoke,… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
A real stunner. Want to get swept up on a journey you will never forget and never quite escape? Open THE RITUAL… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've… — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was… — Ellen Glasgow 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
It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians… — Anita Rau Badami Copy Share Image
Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build… — Paul Feyerabend 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
“After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image