"Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
For loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
Like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself..."

~ Norman Wesley Brooks

Photo by MayJ

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Camel Caravan Crossing the Lybian Desert

"Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."

~ Joan Winmill Brown

Photo by pyza*

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

~ Buddha

Quiet beach on Koh Phi Phi Leh, southern Thailand

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The classic view of Machu Picchu

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom."

~ Chinese Proverb

"Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart." 

~ Nate Dircks

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...”

~ Diane Ackerman