Festivities Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“A cosa servono le feste? A perdersi in un labirinto di auguri inverosimili e finti abbracci.”

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I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity,…

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Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus,…

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

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Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present…

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“This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. Dance, and you will find God in every room. Today, we are divorcing resentment and marrying forgiveness. Sing, and God will find you in every tune. Today, we are divorcing indifference and marrying love. Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs. We have…

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I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the…

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Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

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A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

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My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the…

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