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“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase

“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.” – Burton Hillis

“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde

“It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.” – W.T. Ellis

“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” – Benjamin Franklin

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.” – Thomas Tusser

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.” – Mark Twain

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – e e cummings

“Laughter is the closest distance between two people” – Victor Borge

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“Laughter is by definition healthy.” – Doris Lessing

“Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.” – Edward Chapin

“Laughter is inner jogging.” – Norman Cousins

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.” – Frank Wilczek

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t as all. You can be discouraged by failure – or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember, that’s where you will find success.” –
Thomas J. Watson

“Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.” – Cato the Elder

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead

“She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.” – Henry James

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” – Oscar Wilde

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” – Alfred Hitchcock

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead

“Life is something that everyone should try at least once.” – Henry J. Tillman

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” – Woody Allen

“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” – Herbert Henry Asquith

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw

“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.” – Mark Twain