Holidays


The New Year is a reusable blank slate.
-Vera Nazarian

The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
-George William Curtis

New Year = A New Life!
Decide today who you will become,
what you will give, how you will live.
-Tony Robbins

I make no resolutions for the New Year.
The habit of making plans,
of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life,
is too much a daily event for me.
-Anais Nin

The first day of April is the day we remember
what we are the other 364 days of the year.
-Mark Twain

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
-W. J. Cameron

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

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
-Eva Logue

Christmas is not a time or 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 is doing a little something extra for someone.
-Charles M. Schulz

Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone.
-Bing Crosby

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern,
is very simple: loving others.
Come to think of it,
why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
-Bob Hope

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

So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us — Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!
-Susan Cooper

Which Christmas is the most vivid to me?
It's always the next Christmas.
- Joanne Woodward

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world
is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
-Author Unknown

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart,
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Another year gone -
hat in my hand,
sandals on my feet.
-Basho