“A tree is known by its fruit;
a man by his deeds. A good deed
is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who
plants kindness gathers love.”
~ Saint Basil
Be Extraordinary
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Illuminate Others
“Never worry about the size of
your Christmas tree. In the eyes
of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
~ Larry Wilde
Shiny Ornaments
“Some Christmas tree ornaments
do a lot more than glitter and glow,
they represent a gift of love
given a long time ago.”
~ Tom Baker
Dreams of a Shadow
“Character is like a tree and
reputation like a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing.”
~ Abraham Lincoln
Bend and Withstand Anything
“It is the nature of the strong heart,
that like the palm tree, it strives ever
upwards when it is most burdened.”
~ Philip Sidney
Magical Pine Boughs
“I am a romantic.
I want to cry when I throw out
my Christmas tree, and I have a lot
of feelings about magic and fantasy.”
~ Sondra Locke
Just Common Sense
“You can’t sow an apple seed
and expect to get an avocado tree.
The consequences of your life
are sown in what you do
and how you behave.”
~ Tom Shadyac
A Dancing Tongue of Flame
“A woodland in full color is
awesome as a forest fire,
in magnitude at least,
but a single tree is like
a dancing tongue of flame
to warm the heart.”
~ Hal Borland
A Sheltering Tree
“Never say there is nothing
beautiful in the world anymore.
There is always something
to make you wonder
in the shape of a tree,
the trembling of a leaf.”
~ Albert Schweitzer
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