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Rituals build brands. -- Martin Lindstrom
Rituals are important. -- John Lennon
Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. -- John Irving
Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion. -- Laozi
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. -- Anne Lamott
Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. -- John Lennon
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God. -- Louis Farrakhan
Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected. -- Tony Campolo
Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat. -- David Karp
Rituals are the kindergarten of religion. They are absolutely necessary for the world as it is now; only we shall have to give people newer and fresh rituals. A party of thinkers must undertake to do this. Old rituals must be rejected and new ones substituted. -- Swami Vivekananda
Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. -- Abraham Verghese
We lack rituals in this modern world. -- Elizabeth McGovern
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. -- Brigitte Bardot
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. -- Henry Miller
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. -- Randa Abdel-Fattah
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. -- Ralph Fiennes
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us. -- Joseph Prince
In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible. -- Marina Abramovic
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism. -- David Icke
I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks. -- Alan Alda
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. -- Caroline Knapp
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
I do a little thing about the way people shake the sweetener packet. You know, like they're all excited. I want to get all the granules down to one end. I love all these rituals. -- Jerry Seinfeld
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals. -- Antony Beevor
Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner. -- Siri Hustvedt
Spiritual life can certainly follow the pattern one sees in the fake martial arts, with most teachers making nebulous and magical claims that never get tested, while their students derange themselves with weird ideas, empty rituals, and other affectations. -- Sam Harris
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? -- Mary Douglas
It might kill you to say it, because the film really takes on the Catholic Church, but I do think there is a sort of affection for certain rituals, and an authenticity to the presentation of those rituals, in 'Mea Maxima Culpa.' -- Alex Gibney
The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief. -- Colm Toibin
Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. -- Louise Brown
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic. -- David Bowie
Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them? -- Devdutt Pattanaik
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in? -- Paul Bloom
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. -- Dallas Willard
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals -- Doreen Valiente
I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person. -- Justin Bartha
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. -- Tea Obreht
No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. -- Stephen Greenblatt
I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals -- Robert Downey, Jr.
People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes. -- Garth Stein
You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them. -- Rachel Klein
Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. -- John Barth
Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. -- Ian Mcewan
Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes. -- Allison Williams
You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process -- Meister Eckhart
Of all the sad rituals of this inconsequential life, dating must be the saddest of all." -- Toni Jordan
I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. -- David B. Coe
It's so important to engage your kids to create rituals and moments that they will always remember. -- Josie Bissett
I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance. -- Nicholas Sparks
Let My worship be in theheart that rejoices, for behold,all acts of love and pleasureare My rituals. -- Doreen Valiente
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. -- John Green
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In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth. -- Scott Cunningham
Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. -- Camille Paglia
There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. -- Isabella Rossellini
I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living. -- Thomm Quackenbush
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. -- Ramakrishna
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. -- R. D. Laing
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. -- Deborah Norville
Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. -- Aaron Eckhart
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. -- George Stephanopoulos
If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times. -- Joseph Campbell
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think. -- Patricia J. Williams
I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies. -- Bitsie Tulloch
The natural world is full of females falling hard for stupid male display behavior, including bright feathers, big antlers, and bombastic courtship rituals. -- Richard Conniff
Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that. -- Joe Klein
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. -- Dar Williams
"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace. -- Robert Jeffress
We should think of a photographer as a Samurai who makes rituals, moves and gestures in order to develop his techniques and his instinct. -- Alex Majoli
I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure. -- Sam Rockwell
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs, I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly. -- Tom Lehrer
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing. -- Rafael Nadal
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling. -- John Travolta
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup. -- Ingrid Michaelson
In the New Hebrides, any dancer making a mistake was assaulted, wounded, and possibly killed by bowmen posted to keep careful watch for inaccuracies in rituals. -- Jamake Highwater
Many successful people get up before 6am in the morning. They have rituals. They exercise, stretch, organize their day, and walk through that series of rituals. -- Brian Tracy
I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class -- Pat Conroy
The church must provide postmoderns with an alternity of rituals by which they can turn and tune to one another and feel connected to the cosmos. -- Leonard Sweet
I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. -- Jodie Foster
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 behind -- Waris Dirie
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 of religion. -- Richard Dawkins
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind. -- Alexander McCall Smith
A citizenship of wholesale delegation and abdication to public and private power systems, such as prevails now, makes such periodic checks as elections little more than rituals. -- Ralph Nader
Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating. -- Ruth Reichl
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money. -- Diane Wakoski
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Tinitiations ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the occult traditions of every culture."65 Thus, "the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals. -- Jacques Vallee
It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter. -- Ronald Hutton
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals. -- Laozi
I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience. -- Missy Mazzoli
Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that. -- Paula Scher
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I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there. -- Pearl Bailey
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth. -- Rick Warren
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 without feeling I'm acting. -- Margaret Atwood
I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals. -- Fred Melamed
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel, and once a year the hilarity of carols. -- Czeslaw Milosz
As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. -- William Greider
Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because I was all into the hallucinogens for a minute. -- Michelle Rodriguez
The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls is one of those everyday prayers. -- Brenda Peterson
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 by the rituals of the kitchen. -- Ruth Reichl
I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Atheism is not a religion. One of the things, in fact, that atheism lacks are the kinds of rituals that religion does provide and I would be the first to say that. -- Susan Jacoby
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with funny accents and odd rituals, and we get into trouble. -- Cyrus Broacha
Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you. -- Adam Mansbach
Our comfort in theological traditions should never usurp our desire for spiritual Truth. If we vigorously pursue the rituals rather than a relational experience with God then we've missed His message entirely. -- Jason Versey
I have always been fascinated by the values of sport and loved its rituals; in fact, since ancient times sport has been a byword for top physical prowess and spectacular athletic performance. -- Giorgio Armani
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior -- Bill Porter
Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership! -- Louis Farrakhan
My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me. -- Stephanie Mills
I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result. -- Leonard Sax

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