Those Christmas lights light up the street
Down where the sea and city meet
May all your troubles soon be gone
Oh Christmas lights, keep shining on
Those Christmas lights light up the street
Maybe they'll bring her back to me
Then all my troubles will be gone
Oh Christmas lights, keep shining on
- Coldplay

It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season - like all the other seasons - is a good time to not only tell stories of miracles, but to think about the miracles in your own life, and to be grateful for them.
- Lemony Snicket, The Lump of Coal

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

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear

-John Lennon

Bob: “Well I got a letter from Benny Haynes! Do you remember the Mess Sergeant?”
Phil: “Freckle-face Haynes, the dog-faced boy?”
Bob: “He’s got sisters? – Claims he’s got ‘em.”
Phil: “How can a guy that ugly, have sisters?
Bob: “Very brave parenting!”
- White Christmas

Lights around the tree
Mama's whistling
Takes me back again
There's something about December

We're hanging mistletoe
And hoping that it snows
I close my eyes and then
I can still remember
How to get back, home 

Let all your memories hold you close
No matter where you are, you're not alone

Because the ones you love are never far
If Christmas is in your heart
- Christina Perri

The love we found, the love we found
We carry with us so we're never quite alone.

- Muppet Christmas Carol

I'm not just a whimsical figure who wears a charming suit and affects a jolly demeanor. You know, I'm a symbol. I'm a symbol of the human ability to be able to suppress the selfish and hateful tendencies that rule the major part of our lives. If you can't believe, if you can't accept anything on faith, then you're doomed for a life dominated by doubt.

- Miracle on 34th Street

It came, a flowerth bright
Amid the cold of winter
When half-spent was the night

- from Lo! How a Rose E'er Blooming

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
- Francis P. Church

I am only afraid of two things: heights, and falling from them.
- A Muppet Christmas Carol

Heap on the wood! - The wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. 

- Sir Walter Scott

For love doesn't come in boxes
Nor truth in a crowded shop
Those red ribbon foxes are not so easy caught
But the search it never stops
- A Fine Frenzy

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. 

- Dr. Seuss

Wintersong

The lake is frozen over
The trees are white with snow
And all around
Reminders of you
Are everywhere I go

It's late and morning's in no hurry
But sleep won't set me free
I lie awake and try to recall
How your body felt beside me
When silence gets too hard to handle
And the night too long

And this is how I see you
In the snow on Christmas morning
Love and happiness surround you
As you throw your arms up to the sky
I keep this moment by and by

Oh I miss you now, my love
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas, my love

Sense of joy fills the air
And I daydream and I stare
Up at the tree and I see
Your star up there

And this is how I see you
In the snow on Christmas morning
Love and happiness surround you
As you throw your arms up to the sky
I keep this moment by and by

- Sarah McLachlan

Home Alone 2

Do you know how the tv works?
I'm 10 years old. TV is my life.

You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas.

My tie is in the bathroom and I can't go in because Uncle Frank is taking a shower. He says that if I walked in there and saw him naked I'd grow up never feeling like a real man.

Two scoops sir?
Two? Make it three. I'm not driving.

He said he didn't come all the way to New York to get his naked rear end spied on.

Remember, if this makes the papers, we're no longer the Wet Bandits, we're the Sticky Bandits!

My grandfather says if my head wasn't screwed on, I'd leave it on the school bus.

You're not boring. You don't mumble or spit. You should do it more often. Just wear an outfit with no pigeon poop on it.

Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.
- Donald E. Westlake

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