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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• 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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• Love the giver more than the gift.

  Brigham Young

  Love, Christmas, Meaningful

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• At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

  Thomas Tusser

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Xmas, Earth

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• The secret anniversaries of the heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Birthday, Time, Heart

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Funny, Christmas

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

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• I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Happy Holidays, Forgiving

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.5

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• Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

  Freya Stark

  Christmas, Home, Heart

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.61, I.B.Tauris

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• Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

  Pope John XXIII

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

  Pope John XXIII (1996). “Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd”, Viking Press

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• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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