This Christmas Eve, as in previous years, I have selected some of the most pertinent quotes from posts I wrote in 2024, as well as those I put regularly on X (Twitter.) I have illustrated them with some seasonal images and beautiful depictions of winter.

I wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas. For those who do not celebrate it, or experience this as a difficult time, I wish you a calm period of rest and relaxation.

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

Mill Creek (also known as Winter Sun) – 1925. Friedrich Julius Oskar Blümner. Wikioo

“If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.”

Irvin D. Yalom

Sunset on the Seine at Lavacourt, Winter Effect – 1880. Claude Monet. Wikioo

“One falls in love, and then learns, for the duration, that one is at the mercy of someone else’s childhood.”

Hanif Kureishi

Paris in the snow – 1894.Paul Gauguin. Wikioo

“The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgement.”

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Snow – 1874. Gustave Courbet. Wikioo

“People need people – for initial and continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one – not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty – transcends the need for human contact.”

Irvin D. Yalom

Christmas Roses – Dorothy Larcher. Wikioo

“So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

Jorge Luis Borges

A Christmas Carol at Bracken Dene. Arthur Hughes. 1878-9. Wikimedia Commons

“Let love always lead you to listen more deeply, understand more fully, connect more securely, forgive more freely, communicate more clearly, and respond more gently.”

L.R. Knost

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Dear Readers,

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

Love to you all, from Linda. 🌲❤️🧚‍♀️

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