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50 Quotes That Will Put You In The Holiday Spirit When You're Feeling Like A Scrooge

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.
Holly Riordan
November 30, 2016
“What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas perhaps means a little bit more!”
— Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!(Classic Seuss)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Materialism
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, God, kindness
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
— Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Childhood
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol(Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Past, present, Future
“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.”
— Bess Streeter Aldrich, Song of Years
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas Eve, Warmth, Happiness
“Everyone wants a Christmas tree. If you had a Christmas tree Santa would bring you stuff! Like hair curlers and slut shoes.”
— Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Tree, santa
“God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.”
— Bil Keane, Jeffy's Lookin' at Me
Tagged: Holidays, God, santa, Christmas
“Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.”
— G.K. Chesterton, Brave New Family: G.K. Chesterton on Men and Women, Children, Sex, Divorce, Marriage and the Family
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, homeless
“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.”
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, candy
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!”
— Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Youth, Happiness
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
— Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Together
“I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn’t make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of our hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simpleminded and terribly vulnerable to joy.”
— Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Childhood, Youth
“I needed the Christmas spirit because sometimes spirit is all you have. I needed Christmas spirit because I needed to be reminded that there is life outside of all this. That you can find a bittersweet victory hearing that your father is moving around with help, and then go to the local parade and smile broadly at the floats as they pass by.”
— Abby Rosmarin, When You Can’t Find The Christmas Spirit
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Spirit, Holiday Spirit
“The Christmas spirit isn’t something you can find or catch. You can’t slip on a Christmas CD into the stereo and realize the Christmas spirit had been under the couch all along. You can’t chase the Christmas spirit down the street, snatching it up in your arms as you look at all the pretty lights. The only thing you can do is put on the music and look at the lights and understand that the spirit will show itself on its own terms.”
— Abby Rosmarin, When You Can’t Find The Christmas Spirit
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Spirit, Holiday Spirit
“This is what Christmas is about: love, hope, and faith. In as much of an abundance as available. Regardless of your theological background and beliefs.”
— Abby Rosmarin, When You Can’t Find The Christmas Spirit
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Religion, Love, Hope, Faith
“People are happier (unless they’re more stressed) during the Christmas season. It’s about giving, not receiving!”
— Olivia Danchik, 16 Reasons Christmas Season Is Truly ‘The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Happiness
“There’s no place like home for the holidays…”
— Olivia Danchik, 16 Reasons Christmas Season Is Truly ‘The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’
Tagged: Holidays, Family, Home
“Christmas is more than just December 25th. It’s a season of happiness, love, and anticipation… if you haven’t started celebrating yet, you’re LATE!”
— Olivia Danchik, 16 Reasons Christmas Season Is Truly ‘The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Celebration, Love, Happiness
“Many of you will be sitting in a room with laughing kids who won't be kids much longer, and proud grandparents who won't be around much longer, and it probably won't occur to you that all of it is as tenuous as a snowflake on a dog's nose. It won't occur to you that there will never be another Christmas exactly like this one, that time will move on and people will change and that some day your most treasured memories will be things that at the time you experienced with nothing more than detached, mild annoyance.

So, if you're gathering with your family and friends this time of year, I personally don't care what you call the holiday as long as you celebrate it with this in mind:

You don't get many of these. Make them count.”
— David Wong, The True Meaning of Christmas(That Everyone Forgets)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Death, enjoy the moment
“The true meaning of Christmas is to cheer people up during a cold and depressing time of year. That means lots of food, getting together with family and friends, giving each other gifts, being kind to others, and helping those in need.”
— Staks Rosch, The True Meaning of Christmas(That Everyone Forgets)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Cheer, Happiness, gifts
“The smile on your recipient’s face makes up for everything you may have wronged them by.”
— Katerina Gan, 25 Reasons why YOU should love Christmas.
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, gifts, smiling
“The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.”
— Sherryl Woods, An O'Brien Family Christmas
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, God
“Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.”
— Charles Dicken, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain(Christmas Books series Book 5)
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Memories, Sorrows
“Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.”
— Rosie Thomas, Iris and Ruby: A Novel
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Together
“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”
— Winston S. Churchill, In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Children, adults
“To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.”
— E. B. White, The Second Tree From The Corner
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas
“There are some wonderful aspects to Christmas. It's magical. And each year, from at least November, well, September, well, if I'm honest, May, I look forward to it hugely.”
— Miranda Hart, Is It Just Me?
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Magical
“Christmas is a time for families.”
— Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Family
“The thoughtfulness and goodwill messages from loved ones brighten my Christmas day.”
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Love, Goodwill
“Christmas isn't a parade or concert but a piece of home you keep in your heart wherever you go.”
— Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town
Tagged: Holidays, Christmas, Home