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Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Abstemiousness is not that you should possess naught, but that nothing should possess you.
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I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Vandana Shiva
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Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.
Louise Wilder
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Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
Joe Baca
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Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.
Paul David Tripp
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Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.
Graham Cooke
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I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit.
Robert Battle
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Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.
Dewitt Jones
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Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.
Stacy London
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
John Charles Polanyi
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Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration
Shri Radhe Maa
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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.
Anthony Burgess
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Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
Walter Brueggemann
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What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.
Sathya Sai Baba
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Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
Dewitt Jones
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Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
Yo-Yo Ma
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The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
Oprah Winfrey
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The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
Brian Swimme
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
Odetta
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Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.
Janet Evanovich
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Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
Paulo Coelho
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The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.
Dewitt Jones
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I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
Brad Paisley
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To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.
Jacob Needleman
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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
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Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
Bill Rodgers
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As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.
Killer Mike
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I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
Norman Rockwell
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Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.
LeCrae
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Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
Dewitt Jones
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Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
Bjork
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.
D. Todd Christofferson
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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.
Rajneesh
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
Nadine Gordimer
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Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
Richie Havens
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I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.
Jeff Henderson
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The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.
Patricia Hampl
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The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.
Dan Buettner
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Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.
Emma Thompson
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When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.
Penn Jillette