celebration, n.All

Celebration is not to be endulged in overly hastily — don't whistle until you're out of the woods.

Celebration is the enemy of originality in art.

When a baby elephant is born, other moms in the family group will trumpet to celebrate and announce the new baby's arrival.

What do clams do on their birthdays?Shellebrate

Celebration is self-restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

Celebration is unwise before a thing has ended — Do not praise the day before the nightfall.

Celebration is best not done prematurely — It is not a fish until it is safely on the bank.

Celebration is a confrontation involving the giving of attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.

Celebration is a power that we are losing today: it is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation and it stands in contrast to being entertained which is a passive state marked by amusement or spectacle.