Holiday Quotes

Travelling allows you to see the world as it is.And that's beautiful.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

~ Criss Jami

What, Rudolph wasn’t available?

~ Sierra Donovan

Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

~ Criss Jami

What would behoove me to instantly declare God not to be God unless He followed my script in some tediously exacting manner? I must confess that I am less likely to believe that it’s a matter of some narcissistic demand that I freely pen my own script. Rather, I think it’s fear that I’m too inadequate to follow God’s.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You need to be outdoors. Away from here. You need a holiday.

~ Fennel Hudson

Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will eternally fill me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us.

~ Rick Warren

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

~ Kenneth Grahame

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.

~ Amanda Craig

Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my holiday. OR, every day is my work day. Mostly it's a choice.

~ Richie Norton

Go forward and explore many great lands.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With more time spent in their mother's presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie's own facile mental questioning and creative drive, paired with her physical rigidity, all the more oppositional, and, how they dance around serious subjects, laughable.

~ Justin Bog

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

~ Criss Jami

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world, the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For their holidays: the rich go see the world, the poor go see their parents.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It’d been a long time since they’d been together, but as close as they were physically, they’d never been so far apart in every other way.

~ Jennifer Faye

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

~ Hillary Depiano

Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year…

~ James A. Murphy

The strange thing is, this truly horrifying experience planted a seed deep within my heart that germinated and grew into a desire that, I have to admit, I've never completely overcome.

~ Kathi Daley

She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven years old. She found plastic swans on strings and red crystal cardinals. She found a blue-and-white rocking horse covered in glitter. She found a porcelain Santa Claus. She found that she couldn’t figure out where the hell time had gone.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.

~ Hillary Depiano

Poor people do not go on holiday, they go home.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.

~ Hillary Depiano

MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it's easy to fail to appreciate what a miracle it is to have more time. So, I suppose, it feels different right now because this time you're paying attention

~ Hillary Depiano

MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.

~ Hillary Depiano

MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?

~ Hillary Depiano

MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.

~ Hillary Depiano

NOEL: And even when I don't stay up until midnight, I still enjoy the tradition of New Year's resolutions. What can I say? I like setting personal goals and challenging myself to improve. I suppose I could do it on any day of the year, but the New Year is as good a day as any. It's a fresh start.

~ Hillary Depiano