Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. — Lexa Doig Copy Share Image
“The ritual was kissing her at various parts as if I were adorning her.” — Nicholas Mosley 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
History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration. — Norman O. Brown 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
She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because… — Ruth Reichl Copy Share Image
“I love ritual and repetition. Without them, I would be a balloon with a slow leak.” — Anne Lamott 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
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
Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release… — Karim Rashid Copy Share Image
I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too… — Picabo Street Copy Share Image
“If you wanna pass on a ritual to your children, pass on the ritual of helping - if you wanna pass on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really,… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a… — Gerald Early Copy Share Image
Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I… — Anonymous 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 never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In programs, there are conditions, which the programmer must follow. Otherwise, the code won’t run. Throwing dead animals is a condition. Some… — Misba 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
For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
