Able Quote by Elizabeth Lesser

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

— Theodore Bikel

We don't always get to choose what we love.

— Scott Westerfeld

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

— Gloria Gaither

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

We can drift along with general opinion and tradition, or we can throw ourselves upon the guidance of the soul within and steer courageously…

— Helen Keller

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

— Hugh Mackay

Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man…

— Talal Asad

There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out.…

— Terry Zwigoff

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make.

— Solomon Burke

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell