“Love cannot be owed,” said the retreating shadow. “It can only be given.”
Christmas Quotes
Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.
That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so.
The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.
Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Orlando, driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.
However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.