Festival Quotes

“The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“The only surprising thing about miracles, however small, is that they sometimes happen.”
― Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning

“Throughout the year, in all regions, in all seasons; we HINDUS find reasons, to worship almost anything and everything, anyone and everyone; from people to Gods; from animals to plants; from planets to stars. So our spirits are always high with small surprises of life, we cherish meeting and greeting people, for in SANATAN DHARMA we celebrate every aspect of being human. We believe Bhagwan (God) is in every single particle and OM is in every single ATOM of the universe.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, You By You

“Here too, as in the Commune almost a century earlier, the struggle was articulated around the hope that 'the antithesis between the everyday and the Festival--whether of labour or of leisure--will no longer be a basis for society.”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

“The world, and we as a part thereof, are the carnival mask on the face of Nonbeing.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt and become poetry...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“People who believe in themselves can be anything they want. That's the truth.”
― Kaori Ozaki, The Gods Lie

“May the joy of this festival brighten your life and annihilate all the ills in this world. May Maa Durga’s nine avatars bestow their blessings on your family and friends, and may the auspicious energy of this festival bring you health and happiness throughout your life. Allow the divine power to give you the strength and power you need to overcome all of life’s challenges. I wish you and your family a Happy Navratri.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories

“Happy Holidays (The Sonnet)

Spirit of Christmas doesn't grow on a fir tree,
Christmas blooms wherever the heart is hatefree.
Ramadan isn't fulfilled by feasting on some tasty beef,
The greatest of feast is haram if others go hungry.
Hanukkah's miracle isn't about the oil lasting 8 days,
Rather it's about the resilience of light amidst darkness.
Fireworks may be diwali for those still in kindergarten,
Everyday is diwali for an existence rooted in kindness.
The will to love and the will to lift are the backbone,
Of all human celebration, tradition and communion.
Take that fundamental will out of the equation,
All you have left are rituals without meaning and mission.
Fasting, feasting and decorating are step two of any festival.
First and foremost, at our altar within, we gotta light a candle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Let's start a tradition - a tangible tradition of integration. Instead of celebrating our own culture, let's dedicate each festival of ours to our sisters and brothers from another culture - let's celebrate their goodness, their laughter, their wisdom - so that one day, our children may wake up to a world where there is no "our culture and their culture", just "human culture".”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“You do not need a festival to celebrate, life itself is a festival, celebrate your life.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“This book has been so much fun to write, I have loved getting to know my animal characters even better!

This is a festival not to be missed its brimming with lots of doggy and cat fun

My favourite game is the grooviest shaker competition what will yours be?”
― christine skippins

“When the sky melts into a festival of colors...my deepest longings melt into a poetry...”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Let our religions unite us for human kindness rather than dividing us on what we believe. Merry Christmas”
― Hockson Floin

“आज के रंगोत्सव एवं आनन्दोत्सव पर आपको ढेर सारी बधाई एवं शुभकामनाएं...

आज प्रभु जी से प्रार्थना है कि आपके पास मंगलकारी, सुखमय और खुशियों के सभी रंगों की तथा रंग लगाने वाले अपनों की भरमार बनी रहे और दिन प्रतिदिन बढ़ती चली जाये।

मंगलशुभकामनाएँ।”
― Rajesh Goyal

“In Extremis by Stewart Stafford

Saturnalia's trumpets sound,
The ancestral chorus song,
Time's gold web drawn back,
For the stocks' denizen throng.

Bawdy knights of the feral feast,
Daze of snoring stranger sloth,
As contagion's banquet guests,
Sipping end times' galling broth.

Bean found in fortuitous cake,
A fool crowned Lord of Misrule,
The meek's pantomimed throne,
A drone in a queen bee's tulle.

Fatted calf, societal scapegoat,
Chattels mopping festive vomit,
Charon coins on bloodshot eyes,
Execution dawn to a dark comet.

© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Costuming serves different, even opposite, functions for different people. For most, the wearing of team colors allows a fan to blend in with a mass of other similarly clad fans; it would be unwise to flout the color coding by inadvertently wearing the opponent's colors while sitting in a section of the bleachers occupied by home team fans. But for others, costuming - and in some cases, uncostuming, as with the Yalies who run naked through the stadium at the annual Harvard-Yale game - is a valid, some might say exhibitionist, bid for attention.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy

“Season of love and peace transcends ethnicity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“True festival of life unfolds when all usher into oneness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Celebrate the festival in a joyous way,
repare yourself for Eid
In a heartwarming, special way

Stems not made of weft,
Nor designed to show off.
Wear the garments of kindness,
Woven from love, never to take off

Use the fragrance that's rich with care
Scent yourself with the perfume
of love and spread it everywhere.

Let your words and actions be soft as a breeze,
Be aware they cause no hurt, no unease
Keep kindness sweet upon your tongue
And share it with the world, old or young

The only action of affection that's right,
Open your arms wide, hug everyone tight

Ego, anger, and superiority—
Release them, set your spirit free in all
To friends, to relatives, to strangers, gift
Beautiful feelings to all

Celebrate the festival in a joyous way,
repare yourself for Eid
In a heartwarming, special way
repare yourself for Eid
In a heartwarming, special way”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"

“If colors bother someone, the issue isn’t the festival—it’s the mindset.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“Celebrate life every day, not just during Diwali.”
― Hockson Floin

“Life shines brightest when we celebrate it daily, not just when it is Diwali.”
― Hockson Floin

“Joy isn’t seasonal, it’s a lifestyle.”
― Hockson Floin

“On the auspicious occasion of Deepavali,
let the radiant lights dispel the darkness of ignorance
from our hearts and minds,
filling them with compassion, kindness, and wisdom.
May this festival illuminate our lives with true happiness and peace.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D., Verses of Peace

“On this sacred night of Deepavali,
May each lamp you light
Dissolve the darkness of ignorance
And awaken the flame of compassion and kindness within.
May your heart glow with joy,
And your life be filled with endless peace and happiness.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D., Verses of Peace

“On Deepavali, let the lights of Diwali remove the darkness of ignorance from our hearts and minds, and fill them with compassion and kindness. Then our lives will glow with true happiness and peace.”
― Debasish Mridha M.D., Verses of Peace

“A while ago, I went to a food festival in South London, where-- in a smoky, concrete atrium between two runs of railway arches-- about a dozen barbecue stalls were set up. You can find barbecue and grill cooking easily enough in Peckham. There is suya, South African braii, skewers of chicken kofte, all of which use direct heat in a way that Britain hasn't done properly since the suckling-pig era. The barbecue festival was different. Instead of barbecuing-- a verb, a way of cooking-- it felt like people were doing barbecue, in the same way that your uncle will do Sean Connery when he's taking impression requests.
Of the dozen or so vendors, most were doing nonspecific, seemingly American-inspired barbecue: slow-cooked brisket piled into burgers, burnt ends, actually burnt ends, cheeseburger wings, beef sliders, ribs and ribs and ribs, Texas-inspired massaman curry. Even when the flavors were global, the foundations cleaved to certain barbecue methods, and the basic units of North American culinary vocab. 'Cherry smoked char siu glazed kurobuta pork belly taco.' 'House brined & cherry smoked short rib pastrami slider.' 'Hickory smoked brisket.' 'Crack pork'-- in a pork-crackling 'taco.”
― Ruby Tandoh, All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

“This was the sixth night before Halloween, a threshold night, and the town was not merely observing but consumed by the annual Festival des Sorcières, a chaotic, vibrant homage to the bayou’s mystical past. Evie, a smudge of vibrant Cajun seasoning smeared jauntily across her high cheekbone, paused for a fleeting second, her dark eyes scanning the swirling kaleidoscope of masked figures. Here, in the heart of Louisiana, witches weren't merely dusty fairy tales whispered to children; they were a living, breathing thread in the tapestry of history, sometimes revered as wise matriarchs, sometimes reviled as dark sorceresses. Tonight, the town embraced the full spectrum, celebrating the wicked, the wise, and the gloriously weird with equal abandon.”
― Alexis Marie LaRue, The Thirteen Days of Bayou Frights

“May Christmas carry love, kindness, ad grace into the year ahead, illuminating each day with warmth and forgiveness.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya