Christmas - Quotes
There`s something about christmas that always throws us back upon ourself, on our memories and wishes, our childhood self, which is always standing wide-eyed with amazement outside the great door behind which the wonder is waiting.
Christmas wakens, whether you want it or not, that eternal desire for the wonderful. And the wonderful is not something you can possess or hold on to, it doesn`t belong to you and yet it is always there like something that is gifted to us.
Christmas giving is something that people need to get out of the way, not something people wish they could do more of, if only they were richer. Christmas gift giving, pardon the metaphor, is a cross that we must bear.
Buyers normally choose things they correctly expect to enjoy using. But not at Christmas. As a result, the massive holiday spending has the potential to do a terrible job matching products with users.
If Christmas were a government program, the Citizens Against Government Waste would classify the entire $66 billion in annual expenditure as "waste".
It`s always seemed to me, after all, that Christmas, with its spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect upon what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in. I refer, of course, to money.
If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we`d all have a wonderful Christmas.
The meaning of Christmas is the idea that Christmas has meaning. And it can mean whatever we want.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
The real happiness of Christmas is not found in what we get, but what we give.
You can mess with a lot of things, but you can`t mess with kids on Christmas.
I know I don`t deserve a Christmas, even if I did do a good deed. I don`t want any presents. Instead, I want to take back every mean thing I ever said to my family. Even if they don`t take back the things they said to me. I don`t care. I love all of them.