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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

— George Gurdjieff

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

— Rob Lowe

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

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

— Amy Vanderbilt

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

— Herbert Spencer

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

— Paul Sweeney

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

— Peter Hollingworth

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

— Anne Hathaway

A big part of being in a wedding is the financial obligation, and that's something that people don't really talk about, but if you're asked to be in a wedding, you're gonna have to fork over some cash.

— Kristen Wiig

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

— Pope John Paul II

✗Opposing Perspectives

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

— Charlize Theron