~ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~

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

~ The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. ~

~ Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day. ~

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

~ 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 a melody that would last forever. ~

~ Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. ~

~ There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~

~ I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~

~ Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. ~

~ From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other. ~

~ A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;It makes no noise at all,But softly gives itself away;While quite unselfish, it grows small. ~

~ Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most. ~

~ Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~

~ Christmas, my child, is love in action. ... Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. ~