“Life is a mirror: If you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love
"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love
"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Love
"Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Compassion
"That I may reach that happy time The kindly gods I pray, For are not ducks and pease in prime Upon the last of May?"
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Hope
"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