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169 Rituals quotes by 148 unique authors
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Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if…
— Tom Robbins
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A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end,…
— Marina Warner
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Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
— Doreen Valiente
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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship,…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state.
— John Barth
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She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them…
— Margaret Atwood
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This, after all, was the month in which families began tightening and closing and sealing; from Thanksgiving to the New Year, everybody's world contracted, day…
— Zadie Smith
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Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.
— Anne Lamott
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Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty…
— Doreen Valiente
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People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.
— Garth Stein
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Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things." "But different things can often blend together,"…
— Daniel Handler
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Unless you stop him. Perhaps next we meet." "You'll be just as annoying?" I guessed. He fixed my with those warm brown eyes. "Or perhaps…
— Rick Riordan
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Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing...…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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...when a phone call competes for attention with a real-world conversation, it wins. Everyone knows the distinctive high-and-dry feeling of being abandoned for a phone…
— Lynne Truss
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The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in…
— Bell Hooks
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Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies…
— Richard Dawkins
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The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration,…
— Christopher Nolan
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Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only…
— Deborah Harkness
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An island can be dreadful for someone from outside. Everything is complete, and everyone has his obstinate, sure and self-sufficient place. Within their shores, everything…
— Tove Jansson
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It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner…
— Nora Roberts
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Women’s loyalty has to be earned with trust and affection, rather than barbaric rituals. The time has come to leave the old ways of suffering…
— Waris Dirie
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I don't know what rituals my kids will carry into adulthood, whether they'll grow up attached to homemade pizza on Friday nights, or the scent…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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She was a great cook, but she cooked more for herself than for other people, not because she was hungry but because she was comforted…
— Ruth Reichl
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