Issue #9 December 2003

Welcome to the Ninth Edition of "BellaOnline Quotations Zine." This free monthly newsletter features new quotations, related news, links to helpful resources for QuoteLovers online, and much more... This new zine is created and edited by Danielle Hollister, the Host of the BellaOnline Quotations.

• QUOTES TO NOTE"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other."
  -- Burton Hillis
• "Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."
  -- Ruth Carter Stapleton
• "Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind."
  -- Mary Ellen Chase
• "It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
  -- W. T. Ellis
• "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
  -- Erma Bombeck
• "To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
  -- Pearl S. Buck
• "One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy softens more hearts than tears do."
  -- Madame de Sartory
• "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
  -- Albert Einstein
• "Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow."
  -- Swedish Proverb
• "Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account."
  -- Hannah Whithall Smith
• "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before."
  -- Ellen Greene
• "Before you were conceived I wanted you Before you were born I loved you Before you were here an hour I would die for you This is the miracle of life. "
  -- Maureen Hawkins
• "Don't believe in miracles - depend on them."
  -- Laurence J. Peter"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy 35th US President, Democrat
• "Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers."
  -- American Proverb