Christmas Is Coming … So Choose Your Tree & Enjoy These Holiday Quotes

‘Tis the season to get into the holiday spirit.

Which apparently happens immediately after the epic Thanksgiving feast. Can you hear the sleigh bells ringing?

These are a collection of holiday quotes to brighten up the season — no matter what you celebrate. Leave a little sparkle wherever you go. 

And in case you need something sentimental to add to your next holiday card → this is your cranberry jam.

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

— F. Sionil Jose

First and foremost →

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Wishing you happiness.

— Helen Keller

Which means that the best part of the holiday season is that warm, fuzzy, sentimental feeling that overwhelms us with joy.

Like gathering the family to go choose the Christmas tree, together. One of the perks of going early are the choices. So much more grander, greener, and fuller. And all in all, it makes sense. Since your family is still in town and possibly recovering from that Thanksgiving meal the day before → HENCE, it’s the perfect day to spend together in chill vibes only mode.

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

     — Hamilton Wright Mabie

 

It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.

— Agnes M. Pharo

I believe in the magic of the holidays. It’s a time to celebrate and a reassurance that we are all in this together.

With the season shifting its gear into cold mode, it forces us to change our daily routines too. From what we wear, to the route we take, to the way we get there. Having this change is often not appreciated enough. I believe that this change is needed mentally to grow and evolve. There is an invisible force that makes us think about our place in the future.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

We turned this 🌲into 🎄

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. Forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

— Thomas S. Monson

Whichever holiday you may celebrate to mark the Winter season — Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, or Christmas — it’s the gathering of family, friends, and the good deeds of strangers that makes this so special. Because these holidays are more than just about the season, they are about the feeling. 

The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world’s busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

— Thomas S. Monson

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

— David Cameron

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

— Pope Francis

I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

— Queen Latifah