“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower, and every pumpkin a lantern.”
"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."
- Albert Camus
Awareness
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
- Albert Camus
Awareness
"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
- Albert Camus
Awareness
"In the depths of midwinter I finally learned there was an invisible summer."
- Albert Camus
Hope
"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
Hope
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
Nature
"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
Nature
"The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood."
- Richard Paul Evans
Nature
"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
Nature
"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
Nature