There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make
as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
- Bill McKibben Author, Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic.
- Unknown
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.
--Norman Vincent Peale
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
- Hamilton Wright Mabi
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart,
a wide open heart that thinks of others first.
The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history,
because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love
which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years...
Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
- George Mathhew Adams
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)
Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all,
but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
- Freya Stark ("The Wise Men" Time and Tide)
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well,
if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!
And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
- Charles Dickens
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
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