Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -Norman Vincent Peale The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart. Helen Keller Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles. Unknown If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away. Unknown I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. -Mary Ellen Chase Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. -W.J. Cameron There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.-W.J. Cameron 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. -Laura Ingalls Wilder Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. -Larry Wilde, The Merry Book of Christmas Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. -Washington Irving Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. -Carrie Latet Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! -Hamilton Wright Mabie Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. -Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself. -Norman W. Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas" Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold! -Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies. - Alfred Noyes I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. - Harlan Miller At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year - Thomas Tusser Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. - Author Unknown May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, The gladness of Christmas give you hope, The warmth of Christmas grant you love. -Author Unknown I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!  -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!  -Carolyn Wells Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit. -Kin Hubbard 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 Wouldn't life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through? - Author Unknown 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"? -Felicia Hemans