61 Quotes About Festivals

Prepare yourself for EidWear new clothes of kindness, and never wear offScent yourself with the perfume of love, and spread it everywhereKeep the sweet on the tongue and distribute it by heart to everyoneOpen Your Arms wide, hug everyone tight, Ego, anger, superiority, free your soul with these allto friends, to relatives, to strangers, gift beautiful feelings to all

Attitude alone determines whether one experiences one's life as a blessing or curse, a festival or funeral.

I am an Indian and we celebrate all festivals in every region of every religion. That is why it is called Incredible India!

Festivals are occasions to empower ourselves in the course of humanity - they are the occasions to rekindle the promise of humanity in our heart - the promise that we keep forgetting in the cacophony of manmade labels.

In a world where seasons of planting harvests and inundation ruled life and death, it was imperative to bring the gods into daily life to help things along. The more a king invested in festivals of cyclical renewal, the more prosperity the gods bestowed. But if the gods were ignored, bad floods would result, and that meant meager planting and poor harvest, which led in turn to drought, pestilence, disease and death.

The human world is replete with festivals - festivals that if celebrated with a sense of humaneness, instead of a sense of cultural exclusivity, could make all discriminations powerless.

Even a festival of madness is bound to end at one point. Only loneliness and emptiness remain after a riotous festival. When it's over, the taboos that were lifted like magic will return like magic. I can hear the hour of taboos approaching step by step from far away. A lunatic, unable to deal with the aftermath of the festival, may send down a punishment of taboos. A night of madness may drive someone to madness.

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.