The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hillis
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
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. W.T. Ellis
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! Hamilton Wright Mabie
Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Author unknown
For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. Loring A. Schuler
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. Dr. Seuss
Christmas – that magic 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 is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge
Whatever else be lost among the years,
Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,
Let us hold close one day, remembering
It’s poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again. Grace Noll Crowell
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens