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Anniversary Quotes

There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.

Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.

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Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov (1879)

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitzer On the Edge of the Primeval Forest (1922)

All true morality, inward and outward, is comprehended in love, for love is the foundation of all the commandments.

Meister Eckhart Meister Eckhart’s Sermons (1909)

The truth is, indeed, that love is the threshold of another universe.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Evolution of Chastity (1934)

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but expressing them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin The Phenomenon of Man (1955)

Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, — and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

James Branch Cabell The Certain Hour (1916)

Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.

James Branch Cabell The Cream of the Jest (1917)

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Rudyard Kipling Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou A Brave and Startling Truth (1995)

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Mother Teresa

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love....The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

Mother Teresa Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (2007)

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf (1927)

Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds (1916)

The loves and hours of the life of a man,
They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems and Ballads: First Series (1866)

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