“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
“This is the season when people of all faiths and cultures are pushing back against the planetary darkness. We string bulbs, ignite bonfires and light candles. And we sing.” — Anita Diamant, Author
Thanksgiving
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” – William Arthur Ward
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My Thanksgiving is perpetual.” – Henry David Thoreau
Christmas
“Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” – Freya Stark
“Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they handle three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights.” – Maya Angelou
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor
“Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.” – Thomas S. Monson
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.” — Andy Rooney
Hanukkah
“The lights of the Hanukkah menorah that we kindle in our homes are a reminder both of the Menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem and the light that shines brightly within each one of us.” — Libi Astaire
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” — Anne Frank
“A candle is a small thing. But one candle can light another. And see how its own light increases as a candle gives its flame to the other. You are such a light.” — Moshe Davis
“Hanukkah is about the freedom to be true to what we believe without denying the freedom of those who believe otherwise.” — Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light – in a little cruse – lasted as long as they say, but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.” — Charles Reznikoff
Kwanzaa
“Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders and the leaders.” — Dorothy Winbush Riley
“Kwanzaa beckons us to the heights of our humanity, petitioning us to imagine ourselves and our communities in ways white American culture cannot and will not.” — Chanté Griffin
“We have religious holidays, and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit.” – Jessica Harris
“The seven principles of Kwanzaa—unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith—teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.” — President Bill Clinton
“I don't think there will ever be a time when the principles of Kwanzaa will not be important or timely. It's a great time for reflection and now more than ever our country needs to be reminded of unity.” — Kellie Carter Jackson
New Year's
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each New Year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice.” – T.S. Eliot
“A worthy New Year's resolution, perhaps, is to take no hatred into the New Year without requiring it to restate its purpose.” - Robert Brault
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Enter this new year with a gratitude for this new chance to create your dreams.” - Avina Celeste
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.” - Susan Sontag