“When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.”
"If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it."
- Lucy Larcom
Compassion
"“Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.”"
- Lucy Larcom
Hope
"If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it."
- Lucy Larcom
Hope
"He who plants a tree. Plants a hope."
- Lucy Larcom
Hope
"Each red stripe has blazoned forth Gospels writ in blood; Every star has sung the birth Of some deathless good."
- Lucy Larcom
Inspiration
"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