Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
— Barbara Jordan
Undeniable Inspirational Holiday quotations
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries.
He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.
..yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
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.
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.
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.
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!
A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home.
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!
The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
My normal life is like being on holiday.
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
I have always thought of Christmas time.
.. as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.
In the house of God there is never ending festival;
the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails.
He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.
