Love Is Not A Verb Quotes

#1. If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

Betty Eadie

#2. :...I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb...

Bram Stoker

#3. I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.

Jane Green

#4. In that light, philosophy is not so much
or not simply
'the love of wisdom,' but instead marks the passage from wonder as a noun to wonder as a verb. Philosophy is the love of wisdom to the extent that it remains an incitement to it.

Michael Munro

#5. The greatest relationships are those in which love is not treated as a noun, but as a verb; with romance not viewed as a burden, but lived as a poem.

Steve Maraboli

#6. Life is a verb, not a noun.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#7. Someone has written, Love is a verb. It requires doing -not just saying and thinking. The test is in what one does, how one acts, for love is conveyed in word and deed.

David B. Haight

#8. Love is a verb. We have to let our love call us to action.

Lierre Keith

#9. Love is a choice I've made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it is real. Love is a very real thing to me.

Cynthia Hand

#10. Well, love don't count one rass unless it's a verb.

Margaret Cezair-Thompson

#11. The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

Bell Hooks

#12. Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love's activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight.
This grammar of life not all can see.

Mohit Parikh

#13. But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Bell Hooks

#14. Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective.

Carolyn Miles

#15. Love requires openness. The point is to be changed by, and to witness change in, one another. Slowly, this back-and-forth transforms the shared reality we call the world. Love is less noun than verb: not a thing to get, but a process to set in motion.

Moira Weigel

#16. Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Barbara De Angelis

#17. Of course we get hurt in love.
We have this immense need to immerse
violence into love.
As if a love that doesn't devastate is less of a verb.
As if a rain that doesn't drown wouldn't make the trees grow.

Akif Kichloo

#18. Love is the action verb of life, and of the heart.

Chris Vonada

#19. This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate ... the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss ... this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.

Steve Maraboli

#20. In reality, love is fluid; it's a verb, not a noun.

Sharon Salzberg

#21. ...and love, as an act, lacks a verb

Joseph Brodsky