"Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow."
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hope
"Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its death blow."
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hope
"October is the treasure of the year and all the months pay bounty to her store."
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Gratitude
"October is the treasurer of the year, And all the months pay bounty to her store; The fields and orchards still their tribute bear, And fill her brimming coffers more and more."
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
Gratitude
"October is the treasure of the year, And all the months pay bounty to her store…"
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
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