Compassion Quotes

"If kids come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."

- Barbara Colorose

"Compassion is what makes us human, keeps us on track, and brings us back together when we’ve lost our way."

- Nate Regier

"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."

- J.L.W. Brooks

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality."

- Washington Irving

"I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness."

- Carrie Fisher

"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It’s discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed."

- Ann Garnett Schultz

"Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."

- Washington Irving

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white.’"

- Bing Crosby

"What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present."

- Don Marquis

"Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas."

- Dale Evans

"The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you."

- Sherryl Woods

"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

"We should learn the true Christmas lesson of gentle, thoughtful kindness to those we love and to all we meet in life's busy ways."

- J. R. Miller

"During the holiday season, in fact all year long, wrap yourself around another's presence, not presents."

- Christine E. Szymanski

"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another."

- Carrie Fisher

"Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving."

- B.C. Forbes

"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."

- Ruth Carter Stapleton

"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."

- Washington Irving

"God bless us, every one!"

- Charles Dickens

"God bless us, everyone!"

- Charles Dickens

"Students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care."

- Anonymous

"It takes a big heart to help shape little minds."

- Unknown

"Sending prayers and Merry Christmas greetings to you."

"We are sending you lots of prayers and love for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."

"May the true spirit of Christmas shine in your heart and light your path. Wishing you and your loved ones a very blessed and Merry Christmas."

"Good tidings we bring to you and your kin."

"Sending you warm and heartfelt wishes for an amazing Christmas."

"From our home to yours, sending warm wishes for a bright and merry Christmas."

"Keep your Christmas messages sweet and simple this holiday season."