#ritual

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#consumed #earned #every #experience #grace

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. ↗

— Alice Walker

#believe #black #devastation #joy #moral

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#bearing #both #deny #international #men

This dullness of vision regarding the importance of the general welfare to the individual is the measure of the failure of our schools and churches to teach the spiritual significance of genuine democracy. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#democracy #dullness #failure #general #general welfare

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. ↗

— Vera Wang

#ceremony #certain #even #involves #more

To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one. ↗

— Donna Freitas

#spirituality #faith

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#begins #born #character #comes #day

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemporary #form #founded #greatness #lies

You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

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