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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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Our souls are brought together so that we could love each other.

Alicia Keys

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

John Lennon

Contrary to Pascal's saying, we don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

Jacques Maritain Reflections on America‎ (1958)

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Moses

Love is our response to our highest values.

Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged (1957)

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.

Ayn Rand The Fountainhead (1943)

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

When we love a thing similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring about that it should love us in return.

Baruch Spinoza

To Love is to recognize yourself in another.

Eckhart Tolle

I call love the recognizing of yourself in the other, and yourself your essential self.

Eckhart Tolle

Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well as men.

Plato

What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love.

Leonard Cohen Beautiful Losers (1966)

What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair...Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

Ursula K. Le Guin The Farthest Shore (1972)

Love is not a feeling to pass away,
Like the balmy breath of a summer day;
It is not — it cannot be — laid aside;
It is not a thing to forget or hide.

Charles Dickens Lucy's Song in The Village Coquettes (1836)

If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure.

Bahá'u'lláh

Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!

José Martí Amor (1887)

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Kenneth Rexroth An Autobiographical Novel (1991)

When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world.

Rollo May Love and Will (1969)

"To fall for," "to be fallen for"—I feel in these words something unspeakably vulgar, farcical, and at the same time extraordinarily complacent.

Osamu Dazai

I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!

Laxmi Prasad Devkota

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