Great Rite Quotes

#1. Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Ram Dass

#2. And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

Billy Corgan

#3. Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

George Gurdjieff

#4. He never thought that she saw in him what no one else could see. He never thought that in the whole world there were no other eyes that looked upon him with the same light and strength as hers.

Charles Dickens

#5. I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.

James Marsden

#6. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

#7. We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.

Mike Patton

#8. I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

Susan Rice

#9. Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.

Ella Maillart

#10. But what Chanel failed to realize is that Q didn't want what was best of her, he didn't care about her well-being. If it was up to him, Chanel wouldn't have any of the shit she had now.

Nako

#11. Consider what you can do to assist your inner work, try to do it as you think best, but it's actually only going to be done by you storming it ...

Belsebuub

#12. Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Ella Baker