Krystle D'Souza Quotes

I do have rituals. I'm a fairly superstitious person.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life.

I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws …

I just love tradition.

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.

Culture is a reflection of values.

Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me.

I just have a sense that, you know, I'm curious about what is religion about, you know? Why do some of us still engage it? It's not because it's a set of old beliefs or old ideas. Or even, particularly, the view that this is the only true religion. Many of us no longer accept those views.

I'm superstitious.

My family is very religious.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

Something I'm going to try to really instill in my own family is a lot of tradition. And, I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.

Why do people stick with their God? That’s what they have.

Where a bad custom has been in existence for any length of time, most people grow to regard it as part of the order of nature.