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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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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love.
Love. Love for everyone.
Drift like a little boat on a wave.

Edie Brickell

For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing,
'Twould make me sing,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Donovan Catch The Wind (1965)

I ever give a thought to another, you may well spare it, for those fancies are here and gone like a flash of lightning, while my love for you burns on steadily, and for ever, like the sun.

Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

I fell in love with money before I had any and it’s a myth that the best romances end in heartbreak.

Carole Morin

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

...variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.

Vātsyāyana

Love always envelops us: it is we, with our attitude towards it, who transform it into fire or light.

Jean Guitton

If I had designed the school in cement and steel, this money would have been exported and lost for those families.

Anna Heringer The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings (2017)

But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

Samuel Beckett Molloy (1951)

A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women's oppression today.

Shulamith Firestone The Dialectic of Sex (1970)

The love of God consists in an ardent desire to procure the general welfare, and reason teaches me that there is nothing which contributes more to the general welfare of mankind than the perfection of reason.

Gottfried Leibniz Closing sentence of the Preface to the general science (1677)

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Colum McCann Let the Great World Spin (2009)

The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as light, love, logic, and time, that are not in the periodic table. But you can't drop any of those things on your foot.

Theodore Gray

When an irrational animal like camel dances at the tune of bell, why don't you, being the best of creation, attain absorption and ecstasy in the love of God, or go into rapture by listening the name of the Beloved.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

Love consists in embracing acts of obedience and in avoiding acts of disobedience which implies that the devotee of God develops his kinship with God as he merges his will in His will and avoids that which is forbidden by Him.

Sahl al-Tustari The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004)

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have — and you don’t have to be a ‘Superman’ to do it.

Christopher Reeve

This has been both a heartbreaking and humbling period of time for me and for my family. But what I can control is how I react to things and what I can control is how to make Virginia a better state.

Bob McDonnell

I fell in love with this moon-face: Lavishly I am scattered on the honeymouth
I glanced at the black eye; being black I landed on the eyebrow.

Yunus Emre

You should learn that life, like love, is the only business whose balance sheet must end in the red: you have to give everything without calculating what you get in return.

Paolo Crepet

It wasn't about, 'Oh I want to make a film where I get to kiss a 10-year-old boy'. To me it was I wanted to make a film where you're trying to understand love.

Nicole Kidman

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