65 quotes found
“The birth of a child is the bliss of joyous celebration of new human being.”
“A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.”
“All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybo...”
“[The] dinner party is a true proclamation of the abundance of being -- a rebuke to the thrifty little idolatries by which we lose sight of the lavish hand that made us. It is precisely because no o...”
“I am still enjoying the successful completion of my PhD; taking time to relax, renew, and refocus.”
“Lament invoked love.Woe invoked wonder.Grief invoked grace.Cry invoked celebration.(Page 80)”
“QUIETUDELet this silence becomea celebration, my rainbow shining that couragecelestial diamonds scatter in darknessmy starlight reaching, engulfing bringing sacred laughterto the innermost. Grace.T...”
“Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration: a song of gratitude, a dance of thankfulness, celebration for no...”
“In my life, John has been the epitome of gratitude, and not just because he responds to every meal as if it were the best he'd ever eaten. Throughout the many years of our friendship I have learned...”
“Celebration is an act of impressing sadistic someone residing in you.”
“Life is a celebration. Free your mind to find the liberation.”
“We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.”
“To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”
“It's funny how often we celebrate by poisoning ourselves”
“Another site of Leftist struggle [other than Detroit] that has parallels to New Orleans: Palestine. From the central role of displacement to the ways in which culture and community serve as tools o...”
“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christm...”
“Dont wait until Christmas to show love. You never know those who will breathe their last breath before the sacred season.”
“I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.”
“Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy artillery, these coarse, hardened soldiers who were dispirited by their lack of ammunition and to...”
“But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that's when you start...”
