A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual. — Shahzia Sikander Copy Share Image
I really love doing yoga. My main ritual is yoga. I do A LOT of yoga — Britney Spears 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
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is… — Fred Melamed 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
As they say in my country, the only thing that separates us from the animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual. — Andy Kaufman Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea… — Anthony Lane 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
Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE CEREMONY, a ritual which should be written (o cut down on divorces) -- by adding a line to the groom's questions… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I love the entire ritual of getting dressed. When we do a fashion show, we try to send out a message; we… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that… — S.M. Stirling 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
Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind… — Karen Armstrong 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
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
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
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown Copy Share Image
Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains… — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
I suppose that the scope and implications of such forces have rendered my personal accounting ritual pretty much obsolete. That's how things… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations… — Gabriel Brunsdon Copy Share Image
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down… — Florence King Copy Share Image
I write in a journal daily. This extraordinary ritual has revolutionised my mindset, transformed my heartset, and generally influenced my life exponentially. — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Somewhere, there's someone who's masturbation ritual ends with them setting up ventriloquist dummies facing the bed. I mean, someone else. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
