“Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.”
"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Belief
"Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Inner Peace
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’"
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Reflection
"The end has come, as come, it must, To all things; in these sweet June days, The teacher and the scholar trust, Their parting feet to separate ways."
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Reflection
"Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!"
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Gratitude
"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