Peder Mørk Mønsted – Wood in Snow. 1915. Wikimedia Commons.

This Christmas week, and again next week, I offer you some of the most pertinent quotes from 2022, along with some seasonal images and beautiful depictions of winter.

I’m also including some of the quotes from those I’ve put on Twitter this year, the ones which you have indicated you have liked the most.

I hope they may bring you some warmth, insight, hope, comfort and love….and some new Ways of Thinking to carry forward into the New Year.

I wish you all a happy, healthy and peaceful Christmas.

I so appreciate all your wonderful encouragement and support, interest and feedback. Thank you for following waysofthinking.co.uk.  ❤️🌲🧚‍♀️

Waiting for Christmas – Grandma Moses (Anna Robertson) Wikioo

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Snow at Christmas, Llwynhir – Diana M Armfield. Wikioo.

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

Henri Nouwen

Backyards of Old Houses in Antwerp in the Snow – Vincent Van Gogh. Wikioo.

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other, so you’ve got two new people.”

John Steinbeck.

Peder Mørk Mønsted. A Village In The Snow. 1929. Wikimedia Commons.

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”

Carl Jung

Christmas Roses – (Claude Monet)

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred Tennyson

Winter, Close of Day (also known as A Winter Day) – George Inness. Wikioo. 

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

Leo Buscaglia

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“May you never be too grown up to search the skies on Christmas Eve.”🧚‍♂️

(Unknown)

© Linda Berman.