Celebration Quotes - Page 7

• In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

  Norman Mailer

  Death, Littles, Ecstasy

  Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.107, Random House

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• Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Spiritual, Song

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• For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Religious, Children, Diversity

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• That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Clouds, Sky, Meditation

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• I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

  Alan Shepard

  Pride, Mars, Apollo

  "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.

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• I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Dark, Two

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 10, 2005.

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• What are you two doing flirting with this nerd? I told you, you are supposed to be in charge of the 50 dancing girls I had set up for Miz's celebration.

  Alex Riley

  Girl, Flirting, Wwe

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• A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Unlimited Potential, Perfect

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• The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all meaning of the word: laughter, dancing, orgy, the rejection of subordination, and sacrifice that scornfully puts aside any consideration of ends, property, and morality.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Sacrifice, Dancing

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. xxxii, 1945.

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• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  Natalia Kills

  Art, Pain, All The Best

  "On the Rise: The Natalia Kills Experience". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Blood will stream over Europe until the nations become aware of the frightful madness which drives them in circles. And then, struck by celestial music and made gentle, they approach their former altars all together, hear about the works of peace, and hold a great celebration of peace with fervent tears before the smoking altars.

  Novalis

  Blood, Europe, Circles

  White Rose - Leaflet 4, libcom.org. 1942.

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• The celebration of one success launches a thousand more.

  Adrian Gostick

  Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton (2012). “The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Dirve Performance”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self, Hatred, Ignorant

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Religious, People, Generosity

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• Celebration of the Human Voice--- When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Eye, Hands, Voice

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• Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Limits, Love Life

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 12, 2011

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• The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.

  John Cage

  Zero, Attitude, Interesting

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• Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

  Mark Hart

  Empowering, Desire, Pentecost

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• Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous.

  George Saunders

  Song, Blessed, Fall

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.57, Random House

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• I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

  Athol Fugard

  Giving Up, Lying, Writing

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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• The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

  Thomas Merton

  Song, Cells, Community

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• Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

  Michael Card

  Promise, Saving

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• The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

  Cornel West

  Pain, Moving, America

  Cornel West (2009). “Brother West”, p.4, Hay House, Inc

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