The holidays mean a time for reflection, a time for giving thanks, and a time to seek out advice from your favorite authors. The Read It Forward team has put together a quick highlight reel of our favorite holiday quotes.

1. 9 Holiday Quotes
from Famous Authors

2. “After a good
dinner one can
forgive anybody,
even one’s own
relations”
-- Oscar Wilde

3. “I thank you God for
most this amazing day:
for the leaping greenly
spirits of the trees and
a blue dream of sky.”
– E. E. Cummings

4. “To give thanks in
solitude is enough.
Thanksgiving has wings
and goes where it must
go. Your prayer knows
much more about it than
you do.”
-- Victor Hugo

5. “Small cheer and great
welcome makes a
merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

6. “Gratitude is a quality
similar to electricity: it
must be produces and
discharged and used up
in order to exist.”
-- William Faulkner

7. “I do not think of the misery, but of the glory that remains.
Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and
seek happiness in yourself and God. Think of the beauty
that again and again discharges itself within and without you
and be happy.”
– Anne Frank

8. “Thanksgiving dinners
take eighteen hours to
prepare. They are
consumed in twelve
minutes. Half-times take
twelve minutes. This is
not a coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

9. “It never takes longer
than a few minutes,
when they get
together, for everyone
to revert to the state of
nature, like a party
marooned by a
shipwreck.
That’s what a family is.”
-- Michael Chabon

10. “I awoke this morning
with devout
thanksgiving for my
friends, the old and the
new.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

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