Festivals Quotes

• The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Greatness, Culture, Found

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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

  Shri Radhe Maa

  Celebration, Turns, Live Every Day

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• Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life.

  Agnivesh

  God, Essence, Joy

  Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.

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• Life should be a continual celebration, a festival of lights the whole year round. Only then can you grow up, can you blossom.

  Rajneesh

  Growing Up, Light, Years

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• To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

  Josef Pieper

  Mean, Special, World

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.52, Ignatius Press

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• Life is a festival only to the wise.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.48, North Atlantic Books

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• Festivals become a family because you start seeing the same people.

  Philipp Wolter

  People, Seeing

  Interview with Niki Cruz, therumpus.net. March 15, 2012.

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• You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Blessed, World

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• For the wise man, every day is a festival.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men

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• But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Ideas, Innovation, Together

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• This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.

  Brinda Karat

  Brotherhood, Maintaining, Spirit

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• The festivals are cool because you make a lot of connections at the festivals.

  Philipp Wolter

  Connections

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Ambition, Effort, Generations

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• Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

  Luci Swindoll

  Life, Drudgery, Happy Things

  Luci Swindoll, The Navigators (1989). “Celebrating Life: Catching the Thieves That Steal Your Joy”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life And Love, Party, Future

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.

  Rajneesh

  Men, Earth, Paradise

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• Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Germaine Greer

  Peace, Diversity, Culture

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• The moon has become a dancer
  at this festival of LOVE.

  Rumi

  Moon, Dancer

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The PrIVILeged Lovers”

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• I love the outdoor festival feeling.

  Joshua Bell

  Feelings

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• Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

  Henry Rollins

  War, Years, Cities

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• Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

  Trent Reznor

  Spiritual, Crowds, Kind

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• Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fête. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Flower, Expression, House

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• The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Unhappy, Want

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• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

  Robert Morrison MacIver

  Success, Stress, Healthy

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• So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Movie, Stupid

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