Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
— Helen Steiner Rice
Passioned Greeting Card quotations
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
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.
I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.
I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.
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.
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody was making him appreciate gifts he didn't want, or read greeting cards filled with lame Father's Day poetry.
If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Valentine's Day was created by the greeting card industry to get pussy.
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.
We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
Some days I do appreciate things more, eggs, flowers, but then I decide I'm only having an attack of sentimentality, my brain going pastel Technicolor, like a beautiful-sunset greeting cards they used to make so many of in California. High-gloss hearts. The danger is grayout.
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas.
Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
The love of Christ is not a pretend love.
It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
And the more you spend in blessing The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing Returns to you glad.
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
To say that George Lucas cannot write a love scene is an understatement;
greeting cards have expressed more passion.
We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love.
No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.
i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right
I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.
Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers
Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying 'greeting cards' attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.
Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
I wrote home to say how lovely everything was, and I used flourishing words and phrases, as if I were living life in a greeting card - the kind that has a satin ribbon on it, and quilted hearts and roses, and is expected to be so precious to the person receiving it that the manufacturer has placed a leaf of plastic on the front to protect it.
There's all kinds of love in the world, and not all of it looks like the stuff in greeting cards.
Each time you toss out a 'singing' greeting card, you are disposing of more computing power than existed in the entire world before 1950.
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
Let me say something about that word: miracle.
For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal. Peeping chicks at Easter time, spring generally, a clear sunrise after an overcast week--a miracle, people say, as if they've been educated from greeting cards.
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.
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.
I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas.
Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
Romance isn't about proving to someone you love them with flowers and greeting cards and chocolate. Or even a lock on a fence. It's a daily reminder. It's saying, I choose you. Today and every day.