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But, like so many things in life, when you come to the spot where you're supposed to do the rituals, you do them. — James S.A. Corey

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process — Meister Eckhart

Kindness, not rituals, is mankind's greatest prayer. — Debasish Mridha

our distinction from the apes has brought us TV, the police, and the rituals of Valentine's Day. — Steve W. Duck

Eating is a ritual, and rituals make things easier. — J.M. Coetzee

She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals. — Peadar O'Guilin

Religion is a set of rituals. — Debasish Mridha

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini

In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth. — Scott Cunningham

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 does not lie in the rituals and profession of faith, but in a lucid understanding of the meaning of one's life. — Leo Tolstoy

The most creative organizations prioritize rituals of doing; the least creative organizations prioritize rituals of saying, — Kevin Ashton

Traditions don't come out of nowhere. They come from something sacred and strange. — Corey Ann Haydu

Just not a big fan of dogmatic rituals or gatherings. Like I put faith in god, I give a truckload of significance to karma, character and compassion. — Varsha Dixit

I am in the continual process of transcending fear-based rituals — Robert Downey Jr.

All deities are external manifestation of humanity's internal divinity. — Abhijit Naskar

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. — Tea Obreht

Rituals help us change modes. — Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving. — Deborah Levy

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person. — Justin Bartha

It's no easy business to be simple. — Gustave Flaubert

The moment you exchange spontaneity with rules you've lost the edge of romance — Francois Du Toit

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. — Brigitte Bardot

I believe in rituals. — Charles Simonyi

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens. — Henry Miller

Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion. — Laozi

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

Action is the core of everything-7 Rituals to win forever — Anupam Jaiswal

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

I see no need in taking part in forced adolescent social rituals that would do nothing but stir up emotions of dread for all involved. — Jennifer Mathieu

Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments. — Luis Goncalves

Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition. — Frank Herbert

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. — Clarice Lispector

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers. — Deborah Norville

Marty knew about rituals. "That means we're supposed to do something a certain way so we won't feel guilty," he said. "You got it," Harry said. Marty — Greg Bear

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

We do not need religion, and we do not need regulations and rituals. We need Christ to be our spiritual food. — Witness Lee

The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation. — Mark O'Connell

Of all the sad rituals of this inconsequential life, dating must be the saddest of all. — Toni Jordan

Adolescents thrive on rituals that acknowledge their growing independence and passage into adulthood. — Linda Lantieri

The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology. — Abhijit Naskar

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

Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. — Aaron Eckhart

Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms. — Alexis De Tocqueville

In the article of death, and at the day of judgment, the soul needs something more substantial than ceremonies and rituals to lean upon. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To make it a habit, do it again and again until it becomes a ritual. — Debasish Mridha

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

Writers are said to have superstitions and little rituals. Readers have them too. — Ian McEwan

Seventh of the Rituals of Radiant Living: the Ritual of Music. — Robin S. Sharma

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

Drugs?"
"Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?"
"No. But maybe rituals."
"Drugs might be better. — Maggie Stiefvater

Rituals are important. — John Lennon

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special. — Merrill Markoe

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered. — Stephen Greenblatt

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R.D. Laing

Be as a seed, a seed for change. Allow my gift to grow and rearrange. Multiple blessings for many. For those with none, let there be plenty. p64 — Alexandra Chauran

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals. — Doreen Valiente

Make rituals of the important elements of your work. It ensures that they get done without much conscious thought. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. — John Lennon

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

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times. — Joseph Campbell

So, you think you are saving them by persistently harassing them, interfering in their rituals, and even trying to kill them. — Amish Tripathi

You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them. — Rachel Klein

We lack rituals in this modern world. — Elizabeth McGovern

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

churches are evil, aren't they? What with the crosses and the rituals and the singing. — C.L.Stone

It's so important to engage your kids to create rituals and moments that they will always remember. — Josie Bissett

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song. — Dar Williams

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

"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

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance. — Nicholas Sparks

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 may never recover. It was like an out-of-body experience. I'm an alien trying on human rituals. — Susan Juby

Rituals are the formulas by which harmony is restored. — Terry Tempest Williams

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom. — Ramakrishna

It is not the rituals of worship that please the gods. — Orson Scott Card

The slightest act of love holds greater spiritual power than a thousand rituals. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A heart filled with emotions doesn't require rituals and venues for expressing true love. — Waheed Ibne Musa

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

The blessing was an empty ritual, she knew, but rituals and ceremonies had power in the eyes of the ignorant. — George R R Martin

Hobbies are for pleasure, but rituals keep you going. — David Mitchell

My mother used rituals to perpetuate an illusion of family organization. — Patricia Thompson Collamer

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. — Camille Paglia

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. — Anne Lamott

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. — John Green

Prayer isn't about repeating rituals; it's about spending time with Dad. — Jared Brock

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes. — Allison Williams

Power came from the rituals, not from the gods. — Neil Gaiman

Women who do not play hard to get are hard to get. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One central feature to the practice of rituals and ceremonies is the concept of purification. — Jane Peters

To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine's Day echo every day of the year. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The Fourth Crown Princess of the blue Cresent Islands had sixteen rituals to observe from the moment of waking to when she broke her fast. — Julia Golding

I listen to instrumental jazz and bluegrass, but aside from my AM workout, I have no rituals. — David B. Coe

Let us observe the mating rituals of the lecherous North American lounge lizard in his native habitat: The Open Bar. — Qwen Salsbury

Rituals are missing nowadays — Russell Brand

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness. — John Irving

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals. — Anne Rivers Siddons

Those rituals of getting ready to write produce a kind of trance state. — John Barth

I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy. — Serena Williams