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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.

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Most quoted on christmas:

Eyes that obstruct the road can be removed
but what happens when hearts block the passage?

Suman Pokhrel

I’ve climbed up here
holding the hilt of time’s sword
after driving it
into my tender heart.

Suman Pokhrel

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Rumi

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Journal Intime (1882)

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.

Matthew Arnold Culture and Anarchy (1869)

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
Chill'd with tears,
Kill'd with fears,
Endless torments dwell about thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Joseph Addison Queen Elinor in Rosamond (1707)

I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun,
Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.

George Chapman All Fools (1605)

Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.

Samuel Butler Part II (1664)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare King Lear (1605)

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

Alan Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Louisa May Alcott Little Women (1868)

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Sigmund Freud

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive manifestations of their aggressiveness.

Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents (1929)

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes (2003)

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little.

Petrarch

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

George Crabbe Tales in Verse (1812)

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Sri Chinmoy Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

Sri Chinmoy Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

Now, as to universal love and mutual aid, they are beneficial and easy beyond a doubt. It seems to me that the only trouble is that there is no superior who encourages it.

Mozi

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