""God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.""
- Rudyard Kipling
Love
"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
- Rudyard Kipling
Awareness
"I only hope the fish will take half as much trouble for me as I’ve taken for them."
- Rudyard Kipling
Compassion
"They will come back, come back again, as long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think He would squander souls?"
- Rudyard Kipling
Hope
"Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade."
- Rudyard Kipling
Hard Work
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy