* How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
-- Maya Angelou

“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
-- Johnny Depp

Banish the word "struggle" from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
- Elders of the Hopi Nation

We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.
-- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

* "We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice."
-- Cynthia McKinney

"EARTH DAY uses one of humanity’s great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon. EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth’s safety."
-- Margaret Mead

Celebrate for a culture of peace! -- Robert Alan Silverstein

Celebrating around ideas we agree on is an effective way to break down barriers and create an atmosphere of cooperation. Then we can more effectively work towards resolving issues that prevent us from living peacefully together. -- Robert Alan Silverstein

We can help unite our communities and inspire them to be excited about the goal of building a culture of peace by celebrating together.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

Celebrate for a better world! -- Robert Alan Silverstein

Get your friends together and have a celebration.
Celebrate peace in every single nation.
Celebrate life. Celebrate love. Celebrate peace. Celebrate!
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

The environmental movement is one of the most successful social change movements. Popularizing Earth Day celebrations can be credited with bringing the movement to the mainstream. Through grassroots efforts, festivals, fairs, assemblies and concerts have helped popularize concern for our environment in the public's mind. Since so many people participate in Earth Day activities, Earth Day is the perfect opportunity to get people to tap-into the better world movement, so that they can find the inspiration and encouragement to continue activities for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world all year long.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

End Racism Day ... is a perfect opportunity to help our communities celebrate human unity and the diversity of the human race rather than allow our differences to become an excuse for racial separation.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
- Mattie Stepanek

Spiritually, life is a festival, a celebration. Joy is of the essence of life;
-- Swami Agnivesh

* Time itself becomes subordinate to war. If only we could celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated war; if only we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting for adventure, glorified war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve to infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration that others have put into war.

* The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
-- Oprah Winfrey

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
-- Stevie Wonder