“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
"What we feel, think and are determined in large part by our viscera and ductless glands."
- Aldous Huxley
Awareness
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
- Aldous Huxley
Awareness
"To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one’s own, is ever the beginning of one’s real ethical orientation."
- Aldous Huxley
Compassion
"Experience Is Not What Happens To You, It Is What You Do With What Happens To You."
- Aldous Huxley
Personal Growth
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
- Aldous Huxley
Personal Growth
"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