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 Christmastime. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge

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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much. – Henry David Thoreau

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Christmas, to me, is as many people as possible happy. – Tupac Shakur

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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. – Charles Dickens

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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

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We count down the days just to experience it nearly exactly as we always have. It is so comfortable, familiar, and perfectly nostalgic that, frankly, we have no desire to improve upon it at all. – Joanna Gaines

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Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action. — David Sobel

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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. – Charles M. Schulz

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