Top 100 An Act Of Love Quotes
#1. Jeb [Bush] said when they [people influenced by ISIS] come across the southern border they come as an act of love.
Donald Trump
#2. Why do children love to hide and seek? Ask any person who has a passion to explore and discover and create. The choice to hide so many wonders from you is an act of love that is a gift inside the process of life.
Wm. Paul Young
#4. My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.
Nancy Mairs
#5. Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage
Paulo Freire
#6. Mutual surrender, maybe that's an act of love. Surrendering to this thing that's bigger than we are: this love, this pain. The courage to surrender comes from knowing that the love and pain will almost kill us, but not quite.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#7. You don't need to struggle, your baby is coming. Help him come to us, open your body and let him come into the world. You give birth, you don't force birth or besiege it. It's not a battle, it's an act of love. You give birth to your childd and you can do it gently.
Philippa Gregory
#8. Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.
'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.
'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
Madeleine L'Engle
#11. We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.
Joe McNally
#12. The song is about asserting yourself and reclaiming your humanity through an act of love.
Hozier
#13. To tell the truth is an act of love. To withhold the truth is an act of hate. Or worse, apathy.
Gene Kim
#14. Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets
'piccoli segreti'
that are simmering on the burners.
Sophia Loren
#15. When you cook it should be an act of love. To put a frozen bag in the microwave for your child is an act of hate.
Raymond Blanc
#16. Love should be a staple in our history book. Wasn't it an act of love when the god of the sky chose to keep us? Isn't love what makes living bearable, and unbearable?" -Daphne Leander
Lauren DeStefano
#17. All human behavior is either an act of love
or a cry for love.
Stan Dale
#18. "How can you see Christ in people?" And we only say: It is an act of faith, constantly repeated. It is an act of love, resulting from an act of faith. It is an act of hope, that we can awaken these same acts in their hearts, too, with the help of God ...
Dorothy Day
#19. He became a poet the way other men become monks: as a devotional practice, as an act of love, and as a lifelong commitment to the search for grace and transcendence.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. We are not here together just to make children, Elizabeth. What we're going to do is sanctified by marriage. It's an act of love - of love. Not merely of the flesh, but of the mind and even the soul. There's nothing about it you shouldn't welcome.
Colleen McCullough
#21. The act of choosing whether or not to have a child is often an act of love, and always an act of survival.
Merle Hoffman
#22. I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.
Lawrence Fagg
#23. If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
M. Scott Peck
#24. No matter how well-meaning your intention, doing too much is not always an act of love but of sabotage.
Judith Orloff
#26. Often to make acts of love towards Jesus Christ. Immediately on waking, and before going to sleep, to make an act of love, seeking always to unite your own will to the will of Jesus Christ.
Alfonso Maria De Liguori
#27. Rancher Bundy should've told the feds that those were Mexican cows - who came across the border illegally to seek better grazing opportunities. It was an act of love.
Todd Starnes
#28. I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution - and therefore science - is not irreconcilable with love.
Che Guevera
#29. Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
Jane Fonda
#30. Writing is an act of cherishing ... It is an act of love.
Julia Cameron
#31. Love is an act of art ... It is this creative quality of love, that it seeks to reshape the world for its sake and to create happiness, which makes love radical and potentially seditious ... the inverse is also true: art is an act of love.
Rod Dubey
#35. Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
#36. Writing is an act of love. If it is not it is only handwriting. It consists in obeying the driving force of plants and trees and in broadcasting sperm far around us.
The richness of the world is in its wastefulness.
Jean Cocteau
#37. Submission was never meant to be a negative action. Submission is an act of love and service because someone must lead, and the others must follow. Your greatest act of love to your mate is when you submit and that comes in many forms.
Quinn Loftis
#38. Art is an act of love in likeness of itself Spirit moulding matter into lovely form
Francis Brabazon
#39. We need strength. We don't have it. When Jeb [Bush] comes out and he talks about the border, and I saw it and I was witness to it, and so was everyone else, and I was standing there, "they come across as an act of love," he's saying the same thing right now with radical Islam.
Donald Trump
#41. My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.
Daniel Tammet
#42. We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#43. This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.
Thomas Merton
#44. An act of love is not an act for you and not for me. It is an act for you as well as for me. Love is for us.
Vironika Tugaleva
#45. If you dishonor an agreement, learn from the experience and do your best next time. It is an act of grace to forgive. It is an act of love to offer yourself another chance.
Miguel Ruiz
#46. But we ourselves would not be alive if some innocent Being had not first seen us. That was the act that planted the seed of the whole universe, and it was an act of love. You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.
Deepak Chopra
#47. You reap what you sow - not something else, but that. An act of love makes the soul more loving. A deed of humbleness deepens humbleness. The thing reaped is the very thing sown, multiplied a hundred fold. You have sown a seed of life, you reap life everlasting.
Frederick William Robertson
#48. A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
David Gerrold
#49. When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.
Justin Rosenstein
#52. You know, Nabby, there's mighty few pleasures in life to equal doing one's job. It is an act of love ... -p. 131
Irving Stone
#53. An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
Thomas Aquinas
#54. They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.
Jeb Bush
#55. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
Gore Vidal
#56. Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life.
Pope Francis
#57. Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#58. Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.
Haruki Murakami
#59. A woman in love with another woman is revolution's revolution: it is not an act of war. it is not an act of desperation. it is not an act of fear. it is - it always has been and it always, always will be - an act of love.
Anonymous
#60. To liberate yourself from your own self-judgment is to liberate others from it as well. To love yourself is an act of love for the world.
Vironika Tugaleva
#61. I think every revolutionary act is an act of love. Every song that I've written, it is because of my desire to use music as a way to empower and re-humanize people who are living in a dehumanizing setting. The song is in order to better the human condition.
Zack De La Rocha
#62. Forgiveness is an act of giving; it is an act of love.
Debasish Mridha
#63. An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.
Dorothy Day
#64. Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as to perceive more clearly that unfathomable, mysterious core that is the source of their beauty.
Richard L. McGuire
#65. Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.
Simone Weil
#66. Was it not an act of love to impersonate the loved one?
Anais Nin
#67. Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of love.
Paulo Coelho
#68. The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.
Sharon Salzberg
#69. There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.
M. Scott Peck
#70. Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
Jan Karon
#72. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#73. You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
Robert Sternberg
#74. Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
Peter Rollins
#75. Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.
Ben H. Winters
#76. An act of kindness may take only a moment of our time, but when captured in the heart the memory lives forever.
Molly Friedenfeld
#77. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#78. But she would make it, because maybe he wasn't much of a warrior but if there was one thing that he was cut out for it was an epic and retarded act of love.
Brian McGreevy
#79. Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
Diane Ackerman
#80. Real love" - "This kind of love is emotional in nature but not obsessional. It is a love that unites reason and emotion. It involves an act of the will and requires discipline, and it recognizes the need for personal growth.
Gary Chapman
#81. I love them, but sometimes it would have been nice to be able to b e a kid who didn't have to act like an adult so much of the time. - Amber Brown
Paula Danziger
#82. But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.
John Irving
#83. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#84. Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.
Hugh Prather
#86. I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
James Gray
#87. A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
Italo Calvino
#88. But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
Sean Connery
#89. An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
May Sarton
#91. Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
Brennan Manning
#93. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.
Rob Brezsny
#94. Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a "giving to," not a 'falling for"; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.
Irvin D. Yalom
#95. I love the treat and pleasure of eating when it becomes an act of focused giving and sharing...Wasting money and appetite on bad food is disappointing, but it doesn't matter when the company is good...[T]here's a lot to be said for eating as a social act. It's a treat, even when the food is bad.
Lucy Knisley
#96. Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
Erich Fromm
#98. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Contradictions are what make love grow. Conflicts are what allow love to remain by our side.
Paulo Coelho
#99. By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.
Milan Kundera
#100. Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.
Sigmund Freud
