Daily Jots

Thought of the Day:
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
Norman Vincent Peale

Thinking Outside of the Box:
This is Christmas week. The most anticipated week by children, the most dreaded week by shoppers, and the week where everyone is a little kinder, a little more patient, and a lot more generous. This week I will be giving you Christmas quotes; perhaps if you are struggling with getting the Christmas spirit it will help. If you are already in the Christmas mood, it will just make it better and keep you focused on what Christmas really is all about. It isn’t packages, presents, and big dinners and parties, although those are fun. They are wonderful ways to express the holiday. Christmas is about love, peace, caring, and working toward a world where there is “peace on earth, good will toward men.”

Some Last Thoughts:
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
Hamilton Wright Mabie

“Christmas–that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance–a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
Augusta E. Rundel

“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.”
Edna Ferber

“It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling–the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
Washington Irving

“I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
Charles Dickens

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