Gift to Yourself

"The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other for as long as you live."
--Paul Newman

Possibilitarian

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be, or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities--always see them, for they are always there."
--Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas Forever

"Christmas is forever, not just for one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel in some box upon a shelf;
the good you do for others is good you do yourself."
--Norman Wesley Brooks, Let Everyday Be Christmas

Children at Christmas

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time."
--Laura Ingalls-Wilder

Light

"At this time of year, when the sun is most hidden...at such times, we yearn for the sun, and the light and the warmth that it provides. Often, it is through simple and unrecognized miracles that we are able to feel the warmth of hope and light."
--Rabbi Rafael Goldstein

Best Gifts

"The best gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."
--Burton Hillis

Gifts

"Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
--Peg Bracken

Homesick

"Christmas is a time when you get homesick--even when you're home."
--Carol Nelson

Giving

"I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!"
--Carolyn Wells

State of Mind

"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."
--Mary Ellen Chase

Magic Wand

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
--Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas Day

"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."
--Margaret Thatcher

Storybook Christmases

"A big orange and some fresh pine boughs and 'Silent Night' are all I need, and cookies, of course. They are the strings that when I pull on them I pull up the complete glittering storybook Christmases of my childhood."
--Garrison Keillor

A Christmas Heart

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."
--Roy L. Smith

Christmas Children

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty founder was a child himself."
--Charles Dickens

Christmases Past

"The most vivid memories of Christmases past are usually not of gifts given or received, but of the spirit of love, the special warmth of Christmas worship, the cherished little habits of the home."
--Lois Rand

Magical Blanket

"Christmas--that magical blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."
--Augusta E Rundel

Christmas Means...

"For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home."
--W.J. Ronald Tucker

Hearts of Children

"In the eyes of children we find the joy of Christmas. In their hearts we find its meaning."
--Leland Thomas

Decorations

"Perhaps the best holiday decoration is being wreathed in smiles."
--Unknown

December

"Remember this December,
That love weighs more than gold."
--Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

Christmas in the Air

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
--WT Ellis

The Fullness of Life

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow."
--Melody Beattie