"Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening."
- Walter Scott
Awareness
"It will, we’ll keep our Christmas merry still."
- Walter Scott
Happiness
"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."
- Walter Scott
Growth
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
- Walter Scott
Insight
""If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.""
- Walter Scott
Insight
"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