Amy Adams Quotes

I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

Country, Religion, Family!

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.

I just love tradition.

I am not really superstitious but do follow certain established norms.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

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

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

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

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'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I was going to convert to Catholicism, but I didn't want my grandmother spinning around in her grave like a rotisserie chicken.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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