Quotes About Celebration

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

If life gives you limes make margaritas.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

We need a happy song.

May Day is the ancient festival of Beltane, the midway point between the vernal (spring) equinox and the summer solstice.

Today is a cross-quarter day, halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The sun is becoming an ever greater presence; the days are growing longer.

All Souls' Day is celebrated in many countries as a day both for remembering the dead and for celebrating the liberating aspects of death.

Today we celebrate both outer freedom and inner freedom.

We are entering the season of darkness during which we partake in the most ancient of miracles, giving birth to the Light.

The days are growing ever longer in June, and the Medicine Wheel of the seasons will open fully to the South on the summer solstice, June 21.

Lammas, or Teltane, is a cross-quarter day midway between summer solstice and fall equinox.

Was it all worth it? The King might have said that without his extravagant spending, the luxurious experiences for which his country is still celebrated would not have come into existence. The businessman might have added that without it, tourism would not be France's number-one industry today.

We live in a culture that celebrates activity. We collapse our sense of who we are into what we do for a living. The public performance of busyness is how we demonstrate to one another that we are important. The more people see us as tired, exhausted, over-stretched, the more they think we must be somehow … indispensable. That we matter.

Christmas The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

The Owl & Moon would never lack for customers. If a person came in for Chocolate Bomb cookies for her daughter's birthday, while she waited to have them boxed she'd smell the paper-thin rosemary-garlic Cheese Pennies, and pick up two dozen. Then she'd ask for a taste of the gleaming slab of Chocolate Cherry Thunder fudge.

a concert at Albert Hall, immortalized by the Beatles in their Sergeant Pepper album.

weddings were just a screwup waiting to happen.

Joanna Campbell Slan

Nobody died at our wedding.

The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!

Dancer had lined up a row of tequila shots in front of us, issuing everyone salt and limes before declaring, "Drink up, bitches! If God wanted us sober, he wouldn't have made shot glasses so cute!

Candy loved to shop and she couldn't seem to shop smiling. They'd gone out the front door of The Cookie Jar and into the next building over. There were party dresses on the mannequins in the windows, and Hannah has said they were going to buy something for her to wear to the party tomorrow night.