Some thoughts to keep your spirits lifted through this season which can often be hectic and overwhelming. From all of us at Maggie’s Place, we wish you joy and family and hope for the holiday and for the coming year.
“Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed.” –Anne Garnett Schultz
“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.” –Unknown
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.'” –Bing Crosby
“Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” –David Cameron
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.” –Agnes M. Pahro
“Love the giver more than the gift.” –Brigham Young
“Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind.” –Valentine Davies, Miracle on 34th Street
“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” –W.T. Ellis
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” –Helen Steiner Rice
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” –Dr. Seuss
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality.” –Washington Irving
“Christmas, my child, is love in action.” –Dale Evans
“At Christmas, all roads lead home.” –Marjorie Holmes
“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” –Charles Dickens
“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.” –Andy Rooney
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others.” –Bob Hope
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” –Roy L Smith
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.” –Harlan Miller
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” –Hamilton Wright Mabie
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.” –Josephine Daskam Bacon
Here at Maggie’s Place, when we count our blessings, you are always amongst them. Merry Christmas.
