Nicole Kidman Quotes

True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

How do you spell love?... when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves.

People will say that it's some kind of evasion, but I would never want to have a kid for me. I'd want to have the child for the child's sake, if that makes sense.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

I want to find someone who's really into something like I'm really into something, so that I can support them and we can both cheer each other on. I've got a lot of dreams I want to achieve, and I hope someone can cheer me on as I'll cheer them on in their dreams.

My wife has her own career and has been successful as well. The key for our success is mutual support for each other.

I root for people who I think authentically love each other and have each other's backs, and there's no questioning that.

Another writer might question whether you're feeling competitive. But if I talk to Jonah, I know that he truly values my success more than his own. And I truly value his success more than my own. There's a generosity there.

My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets.

If the guy does not treat you with love and respect, does not cease-and-desist with all the game playing, is not willing to share his world with you, then he is bad for you.

I've always put everybody else's child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

You know, I'm willing to dim my light so that somebody else can shine because, like, we all have to find our inner lights, and shine in one world.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.

To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.

I'll give you an exact definition. When the happiness of another person becomes as essential to yourself as your own, then the state of love exists.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.