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Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just rejoicing in this moment, this tremendous universe. You had not asked for it, you have simply been given a universe which is infinite and eternal. You have not asked and you have been given a consciousness which is eternal, which can become festive. If you allow it, it can make you the sanest, the most graceful, the most loving.

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

Good food is a celebration of life.

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

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

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.

I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

Love can make a great celebration out of your life - but only love, not lust, not ego, not possessiveness, not jealousy, not dependence.

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

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

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.