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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 more we struggle for life (as pleasure), the more we are actually killing what we love.

Alan Watts The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)

We have nothing to do but to receive, resting absolutely upon the merit, power, and love of our Redeemer.

William James Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The joy of love is too short, and the sorrow thereof, and what cometh thereof, dureth over long.

Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur (c. 1469) (1485)

It is love alone that gives value to all things.

Teresa of Ávila

All kids think some other family is perfect.

Sheri S. Tepper Grass (1989)

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

Sandra Bernhard

Perforce, the family that preys together stays together.

Charles Stross Rule 34 (2011)

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

Charles A. Reich The Greening of America (1970)

Appetite emotion must first, last and always be adapted to love.

William Moulton Marston The Emotions of Normal People (1928)

I'm very proud of my son and anyone who has someone on the spectrum in their family feels the exact same way.

Andrew Yang

The love of Allah and His Prophet (Muhammad) is infinitely superior to the love of mortal human beings and of other worldly things.

Meher Ali Shah The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2002)

The gnostic (arif) attains the station of passionate love of God so that he may experience Godhead or His pure Essence.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Literary people of the opposite sex do not really love each other. All they really desire is to read their manuscript aloud to a receptive listener.

Elbert Hubbard A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911)

In his opinion, neither justice nor mercy were very closely related to love, let alone being identical with it—otherwise, why have three words instead of one? A metaphor is not a tautology.

James Blish A Style in Treason (1970)

The spiritual state of nearness of God is a sign of true saintliness. This ultimately results in the experience of love and longing for early union.

Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Arthur Miller The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991)

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia Born For Love (1994)

Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.

Meher Baba Meher Baba’s Call (1954)

He doesn’t know how one proceeds under the circumstances, except with the certainty, pressed to the heart like a keepsake of love, that in the end nothing really matters.

Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007)

True love is that we should hate whatever interferes with our vision of the high and the lowly.

R. A. Lafferty Arrive at Easterwine (1971)

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