Rite Of Passage Quotes

• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Courage, Energy

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.

  Denise Linn

  Live Life, Journey, Silence

  Denise Linn, Meadow Linn (2012). “Quest: A Guide for Creating Your Own Vision Quest”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

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• Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

  Hank Nuwer

  Kind, Passages, Rite

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• There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Sports, War, Opportunity

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• If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Our World, Self

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• I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

  Sean Penn

  Country, Comfort, Testing Yourself

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

  Lance Henriksen

  Beautiful, Wonderful, Passages

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• Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Home, Men, Community

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

  Bob Seger

  Philosophy, Higher Ground, Passages

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

  Heather Mills

  Adversity, Overcoming, Motive

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• We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

  Barack Obama

  Bullying, Normal, Myth

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• I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hate, Thinking, World

  Source: collider.com

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• Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.

  Jenna Jameson

  Tattoo, Hurt, Should

  "Jenna Jameson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 7, 2008.

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• Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Love, Ambition, Men

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• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

  Robert Fulghum

  Mother, Father, Teaching

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• Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

  Louise Erdrich

  Death, Passages, Rite

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• The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.

  David Nicholls

  Believe, Independent, African Tribes

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.25, Villard

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• I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

  Drew Barrymore

  Thinking, Artist, Dating

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• I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Country, Thinking, Serious

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• Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions.

  Sara Nelson

  Book, Reading, Decision

  Sara Nelson (2004). “So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading”, p.38, Penguin

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• My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

  Kenny Loggins

  Brave New World, Passages, Rite

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

  William A. Henry III

  Party, College, Achievement

  William A. Henry, III (2015). “In Defense of Elitism”, p.169, Anchor

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• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Rejection, Painful

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Bloodchild: And Other Stories”, p.128, Open Road Media

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• Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

  Ed O'Brien

  Feelings, The End Of The Day, Emotion

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 1, 2008.

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