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

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

topic: Ladders, Levels, Energy, Peaceful Warrior, Initiation

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

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

topic: Live Life, Journey, Silence, Rite Of Passage

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

- Hank Nuwer

topic: Kind, Passages, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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

topic: Sports, War, Opportunity, Rite Of Passage

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

topic: Art, Self, Our World, Initiation, Phases Of Life

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

source: Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

topic: Country, Comfort, Testing Yourself, Developed Country, Rite Of Passage

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

- Lance Henriksen

topic: Beautiful, Wonderful, Passages, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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

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

topic: Home, Men, Community, Outer Worlds, Initiation

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

- Bob Seger

topic: Philosophy, Passages, Higher, Everyman, Rite

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

- Heather Mills

topic: Adversity, Overcoming, Motive, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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

- Barack Obama

topic: Bullying, Normal, Myth, Rite Of Passage

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

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Hate, Thinking, World, Rite Of Passage, Hate The World

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

- Jenna Jameson

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

topic: Tattoo, Hurt, Should, Rite Of Passage

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

topic: Love, Ambition, Men, Rite Of Passage

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

topic: Mother, Father, Teaching, One Night, Rite Of Passage

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

- Louise Erdrich

topic: Death, Passages, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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

topic: Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll, Accompany, Rite

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

topic: Believe, Independent, Blood, Duvets, African Tribes

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

topic: Artist, Thinking, Dating, Rite Of Passage, Tortured Artists

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

topic: Country, Thinking, Serious, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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

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

topic: Book, Reading, Decision, Bar Mitzvah, Rite Of Passage

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

- Kenny Loggins

topic: Brave New World, Passages, Rite, World Life, Rite Of Passage

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

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

topic: Party, College, Achievement, Capstone, Rite Of Passage

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

- Octavia Butler

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

topic: Writing, Rejection, Painful, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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

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

topic: Feelings, The End Of The Day, Emotion, Where You Are In Life, Rite Of Passage

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

- Ralph Ellison

topic: Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society, Rite, Rite Of Passage

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

- Pete Townshend

topic: Stories, Passages, Rite, Rite Of Passage

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

- Craig Brewer

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

topic: Footloose, Sometimes, Passages, Rite, Rite Of Passage

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Writing, Thinking, Contentment, Edginess, Rite Of Passage

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

- Glenn Gould

source: "Glenn Gould Reader". Book by Glenn Gould, p. 445, 1984.

topic: Music, Keys, Individual, Mental Imagery, Rite Of Passage

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

- Olivia Williams

topic: Play, Acting, Done, Rite Of Passage

As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that is touching the psyche of a certain age group, facing the real internal questions of people who are going through rites of passage into adulthood. It's earth-shaking stuff.

- Ray Stevenson

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Rite Of Passage

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

- Al Pacino

source: Source: www.rawkblog.net

topic: Stars, Sex, Kind, Rite Of Passage

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

- Gemma Ward

topic: Mermaid, Kind, Passages, Rite Of Passage

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

- Nat Hentoff

source: Source: thedailyhatch.org

topic: New York, Book, Boys, Rite Of Passage

What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period of time - music had a cultural significance on different levels, whether it was folk music, it was the news of the village, or it had to do with the rites of passage.

- Billy Corgan

source: Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. June 30, 2005.

topic: Entertainment, Different, News, Folk Music, Rite Of Passage

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

- Orlando Bloom

topic: Thinking, Trying, Cracks, Rite Of Passage

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

- Peter Morgan

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Phones, Phone Calls, Fantastic, Rite Of Passage

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.

- Linda Sanchez

source: "LGBT Youth Need Our Voices to Stand Up to Bullying" by Rep. Linda Sanchez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.

topic: Bullying, Attitude, School, Labeling, Rite Of Passage

The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

topic: Party, Missing, Way, Sherry, Wonderful Moments

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

- Danny Glover

source: Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. March 31, 2001.

topic: Summer, School, Voters, Mississippi, Rite

If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.

- Rennie Harris

topic: War, Fighting, Hip Hop, Bboy, Going To War

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

- Jeremy Rifkin

topic: Today, Wealth, Existence, Autonomous, Rite

The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

- Roger Scruton

source: Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

topic: Modern Youth, Adults, Culture, Rite, Common Culture

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (1979). “The Dead Zone”

topic: Fun, Nice, Fall, Rite Of Passage, Easy To Get

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.

- James Lee Burke

topic: Hurt, Children, Parent, Rite Of Passage

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through.

- Criss Angel

topic: Other Cultures, People, Body, Suspension, Rite Of Passage

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

- Guillermo del Toro

source: Source: hollywoodchicago.com

topic: Pain, Believe, Comfort, Rite Of Passage

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

- Sarah Wayne Callies

source: "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

topic: Love, Husband, Night, Backpacking, Rite Of Passage