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

Christmas gift suggestions:

To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity. To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

–Oren Arnold

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces, and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.  ~May Sarton