There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
Bill McKibben
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart... filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
Phyllis Diller
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)
Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark ("The Wise Men" Time and Tide)
From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
Emily Matthews
Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Sir Walter Scott
Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing.
Patricia Clafford
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
And so, this Christmas season may our hearts with gladness glow, As we read the blessed story That took place so long ago.
Alpha L. Buntain
"A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!"
Charles Dickens