Christmas Year Round Quotes

#1. When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#2. We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. To separate meditation from prayer, reading and contemplation is to falsify our picture of the monastic way of prayer. In proportion as meditation takes on a more contemplative character, we see that it is not only a means to an end, but also has something of the nature of an end.

Thomas Merton

#4. I had let down my shields, that was the problem. The crazy inside Dad had infected me, weakened me so that when Finn smiled, I'd been vulnerable. I'd dropped my shields and let myself pretend that somebody like Finn would want to be with somebody like me.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#5. My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.

Les Dawson

#6. The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round
kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

Harland Miller

#7. The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Albert Goldman

#8. I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.

Christopher Hitchens

#9. And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas - make your picture complete,' said he. 'No,

Elizabeth Gaskell

#10. The whole place smells of dried flowers and burnt egg, and there isn't a nail or picture hook in the entire hotel that doesn't have a few dusty sprigs of old Christmas tinsel caught on it all year round.

Emerald Fennell

#11. What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#12. It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Lisa Scottoline