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• Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.

  Steven Tyler

  Christmas, Cat, Kids

  "Steven Tyler Wants Johnny Depp to Play Him on the Big Screen". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 3, 2011.

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• The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Morning, Term

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what.

  George Santayana

  Running, Order, Solitude

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• No matter where you go, no matter how many gifts you give and receive this holiday season, unless you are actually present, it all flies by as if in a dream. Satisfaction in anything--a meal, an interaction, a gift, a sunset--depends on your willingness to take it in. Breathe. Feel your arms and your legs. You are allowed to love every little thing about yourself and your life. You are allowed to take up space and be all that you are. Really you are.

  Geneen Roth

  Dream, Sunset, Space

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Dec 10, 2012

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• Christians have created a holiday that has become a beast that cannot be fed. Christmas gets longer and longer and longer, and you don't care, do you? You just take more and more of the calendar for yourself. It's unbelievable. How long does it take you people to shop? It's beyond belief. It's insane. When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn't poking his ass into it.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Christmas, Christian

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• Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Wise, Stars

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.79, Ballantine Books

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• I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Giving, Wish, May

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• If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Holy Days

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• The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas, Childhood, Tree

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• We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
  The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
  More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
  is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!

  John F. MacArthur

  Christmas, Baby, Infancy Is

  John F. MacArthur (2006). “Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Oh, what a day. I will make it a holiday.

  Dr. Seuss

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• I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Vacation, Sick, Hammers

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• Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

  Jan Struther

  Happiness, One Day, Half

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.3, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.

  Andy Borowitz

  Funny, Christmas, Religious

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Dec 23, 2012

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• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Christmas, Past, Perfect

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• We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.

  Ralph Levy

  Thinking, Accomplishment, Miracle

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• And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.

  Douglas Adams

  Rain, Clouds, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2009). “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Hedwig didn't return until the end of the Easter holidays. Percy's letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Both Harry's and Ron's were the size of dragon eggs, and full of home-made toffee. Hermione's, however, was smaller than a chicken's egg. Her face fell when she saw it. "Your mum doesn't read Witch's Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?" she asked quietly. "Yeah," said Ron, whose mouth was full of toffee. "Gets it for the recipes." Hermione looked sadly at her tiny egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Easter, Home, Eggs

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• It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

  Frank Sinatra

  Musical, Influence, Stills

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• The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

  T. S. Eliot

  Cat, Thinking, Games

  Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats "The Naming of Cats" l. 1 (1939)

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• Everyday is an atheist holiday.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Everyday

  Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, Penguin

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• The living are just the dead on holiday

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death

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• My Christmases have always just been very simple and about family.

  Julie Roberts

  Christmas, Simple, About Family

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• Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

  Oprah Winfrey

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• Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

  Alex Garland

  Tourists, Traveller

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