Acts Of Love Quotes - Page 3

• Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.

  Gay Talese

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  Gay Talese (1981). “Thy neighbor's wife”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

  Cassia Leo

  Sometimes, Ultimate

  Trisha Leigh, Cassia Leo (2017). “Do Not Publishing Bring Me Home: A Young Adult Coming of Age Romance”, Evermore Publishing

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• No act of love is ever wasted.

  Geneen Roth

  Love Is

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• Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.

  Julia Cameron

  Writing, Cherish

  Julia Cameron (2001). “The Writer's Life: Insights from The Right to Write”, p.20, Penguin

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• Sometimes, in that darkness, there is a single act of love, some selfless gesture, an aspiration, and we see that it's not been all waste, all hopeless, and we can ... well ... go on.

  John L'Heureux

  Darkness, Selfless, Goes On

  John L'Heureux (2007). “The Shrine at Altamira”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Love cannot triumph unless it becomes the one passion of our life. Without such passion we may produce isolated acts of love; but our life is not really won over or consecrated to an ideal. Until we have a passionate love for our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament we shall accomplish nothing

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Blessed, Passion, Accomplish Nothing

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• Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.

  Adyashanti

  Running, Believe, Compassion

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• Meditation is not a technique to master;
  it is the highest form of prayer,
  a naked act of love and effortless surrender
  into the silent abyss beyond all knowing

  Adyashanti

  Prayer, Knowing, Meditation

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• This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.

  Angie Zelter

  Suicidal, Mass Destruction, Humanity

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• Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts. And with every act of love that emanates from any of us, we are activating miracles, adding to a spiritual ocean that in time will purify our planet of all vestiges of fear. Love alone can triumph over hate, and if we give it the chance, it will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Hate, Ocean

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• Dream big & have huge ambition, but never forget life is lived in small moments and sustained by simple acts of love.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Ambition, Simple

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Jan 07, 2013

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• In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.

  Luis Gonzalez

  Love, Memories, Kindness

  "Colorado Police: Dead Gunman Left Long Note That Mentions Suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 30, 2006.

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• 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

  Children, Survival

  Merle Hoffman (2012). “Intimate Wars: The Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room”, p.75, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Our egoism gains nothing from acts of love, but the world gains all the more. Esotericism tells us that love is to the world what the Sun is for outer life. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world. Love is the “moral” Sun of the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Love Is, World Love, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (1998). “Love & Its Meaning in the World”, p.215, SteinerBooks

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• Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

  Melinda Gates

  Meaningful, Generosity, Inspire

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• [Love] can be found in making little dresses for stuffed birds, or in a garden of tenderness like I have done - mixing writing, photography, and real spaces. There are all kinds of acts of love.

  Annette Messager

  Photography, Real, Writing

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• Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

  Simone Weil

  Creation, Perpetual

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.32, Psychology Press

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• I love all religions. ... If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there." She upheld that there are many ways to God': "All is God - Buddists, Hindus, Christians, etc., all have access to the same God."

  Mother Teresa

  Christian, Buddhist, People

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• I think that an act of love is immortal; once tendered, it can never really be taken back.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Taken, Thinking, Love Is

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.60, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, Unity, Dying

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates and recipes, if you know how to - otherwise you make a mess - but I like it because it's like a ceremony. You cook for your friends and after, you drink wine and play cards.

  Sophia Loren

  Wine, Love Is, Play

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Education is an act of love, and thus an act of courage

  Paulo Freire

  Acts Of Courage

  Paulo Freire (2013). “Education for Critical Consciousness”, p.34, A&C Black

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• Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called "the act of love," or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Men, Two

  Albert Camus (1962). “The Plague”

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• 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

  Two, Persons, Love Always

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.217, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Commitment, Law, Broke

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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