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Holiday Giving Quotes

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.”

“To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.”

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”

“Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.”

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”

“Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.”

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

“Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.”

“Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.”

“Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”

“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”

“But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.”

“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 of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.”

“For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”

“Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!”

“I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!”

“'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!”

“Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.”

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.”

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

“I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.”