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

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.

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

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We don’t know who might not be present next holiday season, it is imperative that we foolishly adore every single person with all of our might, we must take in every moment knowing the gift it truly is, and we must let them know how much we love them while we still can.

— Leena Sanders, To Every Person Whose Heart Aches Over The Holidays

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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

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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

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Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

— Rosie Thomas, Iris and Ruby: A Novel

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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)

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The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.

— Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box

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Christmas is a time for families.

— Dorothy Koomson, My Best Friend's Girl

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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’

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Be considerate and kind to others during the holidays. Don’t freak out over little things. Smile at strangers. Be friendly to sales associates and cashiers; they’re stressed out, too. It’s not hard to be a nice person.

— Kara Nesvig, 16 Ways To Make This The Best Holiday Season Ever

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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?

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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.

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Christmas music puts me in such a good mood.

— Jack Mulligan, via twitter.com

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10 years from now, around this time, I'll be makin' cocoa, deckin' the halls and jamming to Christmas music with my cute lil family. I can't wait.

— Bitch Problems, via twitter.com

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We must remember that even though we would sometimes like life to stop, it will never stop for anybody or anything. Continue on your life and honor of your loved one not only this holiday season, but every day of your life.

— Jenna Lowthert, 8 Ways To Get Through The Holidays While You’re Grieving A Lost Loved One

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The holidays are about love and joy, and it’s natural to want someone to share those things with.

— Bridget Kiely, It’s Okay To Miss Them During The Holidays

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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

— Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

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Remember that you are capable of giving this time of year new meaning and new memories.

— Kovie Biakolo, 9 Things To Remember If You Feel Sad, Anxious, Or Lonely During The Holidays

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Date someone that helps you do your holiday shopping. Someone that will walk around the mall with you for hours, trying to find the perfect present for your mother. Someone who won’t just stand there, but will actually throw out ideas that he thinks your parents might like.

— Holly Riordan, Date Someone That’s Excited To Spend The Holidays With You

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I hope that wherever you are, you still think of me, I hope that this time of the year makes you remember me too and I hope that when you think of the ones you love, I’m still on your list.

— Rania Naim, I Love The Holidays But I Hate How They Make Me Think Of You

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The love we extend to one another at Christmas, should blossom all year.

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great, Be Great!: (Beautiful Quotes, Volume 1)

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It's funny to think that Christmas — a time known for its joyful togetherness — can be the loneliest time of the year for some.

— Giovanna Fletcher, Christmas With Billy and Me

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For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

— Susan Cooper, The Dark Is Rising Sequence: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark Is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree

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There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays.

— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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The thoughtfulness and goodwill messages from loved ones brighten my Christmas day.

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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Date someone that makes you feel like a kid again on Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa). Someone that reminds you why you always loved this time of year when you were little. Someone that gives you a reason to look forward to unwrapping presents and taking pictures in your pajamas.

— Holly Riordan, Date Someone That’s Excited To Spend The Holidays With You

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To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

— E. B. White, The Second Tree From The Corner

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There’s no place like home for the holidays…

— Olivia Danchik, 16 Reasons Christmas Season Is Truly ‘The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’

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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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Can’t afford fancy gifts? Who cares! Make cookies. Offer to clean someone’s house, babysit, or promise to take care of them if they get sick. Little kind gestures are the best gift, and you can make cute coupons to give out for them to redeem.

— Kara Nesvig, 16 Ways To Make This The Best Holiday Season Ever

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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)

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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

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Give the gift of ‘being there’ instead of stuff. Give your time, your listening ear, your friendship to the people around you. Be there when your girlfriend gets dumped. Help a friend do yardwork. Take a stressed-out friend for a manicure.

— Kara Nesvig, 16 Ways To Make This The Best Holiday Season Ever

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Date someone that doesn’t have to ask you what they should buy you, because they know you well enough to come up with gift ideas on their own. Someone that genuinly doesn’t give a crap about what you hand them, because they’re more excited to see the look on your face when you unwrap what they hand you.

— Holly Riordan, Date Someone That’s Excited To Spend The Holidays With You

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Volunteering or helping people who are struggling will often result in you feeling better about yourself. Spend some time at a local soup kitchen, donate a toy to a toy drive, or even send an old friend a Christmas card or a small gift. I promise you it will make you feel better.

— Jenna Lowthert, 8 Ways To Get Through The Holidays While You’re Grieving A Lost Loved One

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It is easy to feel pressure during this time of year. The pressure of getting gifts and going to parties and being around loved ones and strangers, who expect you to perform that most wonderful time of the year demeanor. But don’t get lost in the ‘stuff’ of this time of year. Instead, every time you feel that pressure, think of the fact that there are people who love you. And they love you for you, not for what you can give or do during this time of the year or any time of year; they love you for who you are.

— Kovie Biakolo, 9 Things To Remember If You Feel Sad, Anxious, Or Lonely During The Holidays

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It can be hard to admit that we’re feeling the holiday blues. Because we hear music declaring ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year.’ Because everything is so bright and shiny. Because cookies. But we’re not alone.

— Lynn Shattuck, You Aren’t The Only One Straining To Be Happy This Holiday Season

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