Christmas in my Heart

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

~Charles Dickens

Child at Christmas

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

Giving Tuesday

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

---Bill Gates

 

Time Flies

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

---Dr. Seuss

Marvel at Our Blessings

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

---Lawrence Welk

 

Be Thankful

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

---Oprah Winfrey

Government

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

---Will Rogers

Counting my Blessings

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

---Willie Nelson

Gratitude

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

---Aesop

Give Thanks

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

---Tecumseh

Stop Complaining

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

---Zig Ziglar

Most Precious Resource

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

---Steve Jobs

Reason For Time

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

---Albert Einstein

Rolling Her Eyes

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

---Jim Carrey

The Secret

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

---Mark Twain

Complicated

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

----Confucius

The More You Learn

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

----Dr. Seuss

Surviving Marching Band

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

---Nellie McKay

Spark of Madness

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

-Robin Williams

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.  ~Adrienne Cook