Inspirational Holiday Quotes

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love, Christmas, Xmas

Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love, Inspirational, Funny

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Eric Sevareid

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Dale Evans

Love, Marriage, Christmas

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Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

T.A. Barron

Christmas, Thinking Of You, Holiday

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For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

Christmas, Children, Sometimes

Charles Dickens (1845). “A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.111

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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

Christmas, Xmas, Real

"Chicken soup for the soul Christmas treasury for kids" by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, Irene Dunlap, HCI, (p. 1), 2002.

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To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Children

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Love, Christmas, Education

A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

Funny, Christmas, Xmas

"The Pickwick Papers". Book by Charles Dickens, 1836.

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To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Phillip Adams

Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Peg Bracken

Love, Christmas, Time

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

William Thomas Ellis

Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Norman Vincent Peale

Love, Positive, Christmas

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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christmas, Gratitude, Children

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It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

William Thomas Ellis

Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Shirley Temple

Funny, Christmas, Mother

Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion (1984)

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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Heart, Holiday, Self

'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

Andy Rooney

Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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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

Christmas, Xmas, Memories

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Yvonne Pope (2006). “Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom”, p.68, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

Bernard Manning

Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

Oren Arnold

Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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