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Acts Of Love Quotes

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.102, Hachette UK

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 (2013). “The Idolatry of God: Breaking Our Addiction to Certainty and Satisfaction”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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

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

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

"Civil disobedience is an act of love | An interview with Tim DeChristopher". Interview with Leslee Goodman, moonmagazine.org. December 1, 2014.

Sometimes letting someone go is the ultimate act of love.

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

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

Haruki Murakami (2011). “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, p.384, Random House

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

"Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

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

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

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

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 (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

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

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