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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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The wonders of the creation may be described, but the springs of the heart operate in the heart alone.

Nikolay Karamzin

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

John of the Cross the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2002)

Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.

Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love (1393)

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Ravi Shankar Wisdom for the New Millennium (2005)

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Thomas Browne Religio Medici (1642)

She's the goddess of all things sweaty and sticky.

Arthur M. Jolly

And she said Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow.

Paul Simon Graceland (1986)

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls:
Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I will love thee to the death,
And out beyond into the dream to come.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

Edmund Waller

Love has power that dispels Death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Kahlil Gibran

O, there is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love,—the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hyperion (1839)

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle (1963)

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

Leo Buscaglia A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Craik

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!

Alfred Noyes The Golden Hynde and Other Poems (1914)

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

Bahá'u'lláh

I said only one word, brought only one message: Love. Love — nothing else.

Nikos Kazantzakis The Last Temptation of Christ (1955)

In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each of us responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.

Paulo Coelho Eleven Minutes (2003)

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end: we fancy that we have always possessed what we love, so difficult is it to imagine how we could have lived without it.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Corinne (1807)

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