Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 5

My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still.

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: ''Why this is Christmas Day!''

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They''re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

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.

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others'' burdens, easing other''s loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it''s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

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 melody that would last forever.

They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

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?

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won''t make it ''white''.

Christmas, my child, is love in action.

At Christmas, all roads lead home.

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Remember, if Christmas isn''t found in your heart, you won''t find it under a tree.

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one''s fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.