Love is not a simple word

#1. Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else. — Author: Morton Hunt

#2. Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it. — Author: Honore De Balzac

#3. He is so shy, Juliet. He always has been-I don’t think anybody’s ever been in love with him, or him with anybody before, so he’d not know the right thing to do about it. It’d be just like him to hide away mementos and never say a word. I despair for him, I do. — Author: Mary Ann Shaffer

#4. For the briefest of moments his eyes sparkled before dimming again. However much I would love to get into a discussion about chastity belts, now is not the time. The people we were fighting were not human in the strictest sense of the word. — Author: Michelle Smart

#5. Humans are so ignorant. That word means something else, but you use it to try to insult others. You do realize that only humans view such things as homosexuality as a sin. In the other realms it is nothing it doesn’t exist as love is love and gender matters not. — Author: Kerri E. Lorenz

#6. For a blessing from God is not money but the understanding of man. To love a child and be the example you should be, is to show God you are listening to his word. — Author: Nancy Huff

#7. She used that word at some point referring to her family’s love, infinite, and I thought about how infinite is not a large number. It is something else entirely. It is boundlessness. — Author: John Green

#8. When interviewing for a job, tell the editor how you love to report. How your passion is gathering information. Do not mention how you want to be a writer, use the word ‘prose,’ or that deep down you have a sinking suspicion you are the next Norman Mailer. — Author: Michael Hastings

#9. I love a blouse that’s dumb. I love to use the word ‘dumb.’ It’s not knowing, and the word ‘blouse’ is so out of fashion that I love it — ‘a blouse that’s dumb.’ — Author: Marc Jacobs

#10. SMILE Is Not Just A Word … It Means A Lot, Love, Trust, Warmth, Tenderness Etc, In Fact It Means WORLD … So SMILE ALWAYS … That Means, YOU Are Giving A WORLD To SOMEONE … — Author: Muhammad Imran Hasan

#11. When there is not a single special person in your life, you have so many special things for saying, and when you have so many special people, you cannot even find one special word for them. — Author: M.F. Moonzajer

#12. Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons. — Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#13. When people love one another, conversation is not a necessity but a pleasure, and when they reach, as at times they do, deep into the immeasurable part of what holds them together, everything can pass between them without a word. — Author: Mark Helprin

#14. Love is a rose
But you better not pick it.
It only grows
When it’s on the vine.
Handful of thorns
And you’ll know you missed it.
You lose your love
When you say the word MINE. — Author: Neil Young

#15. The word ‘God’ defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation. — Author: Christos Yannaras

#16. Love is a verb; an action word. Its not a noun or an adjective. — Author: Carolyn Miles

#17. When the wound given is deep. The action to rectify needs to be from the heart, because the word ‘sorry’ is not enough to sew a cut so deep. — Author: Trishna Damodar

#18. if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word «no» & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. — «no» is short for «fuck off.» — Author: Amanda Lovelace

#19. I never use the word ‘sex’ in my novels — that is not what romance is about. It’s about love and emotion. All my stories were different but they all had a happy ending — the perfect finish to any romance. — Author: Jean S. MacLeod

#20. Seconds ebb and wane. She’s not afraid of her voice anymore, but she’s not entirely sure she trusts it. She’s seen the damage caused with a single word. Right now, each one is a weapon, a conduit of war, and she won’t just throw them out there all willy-nilly. — Author: Laura Kreitzer

#21. We do not fight for the real but for shadows we make. A flag is a piece of cloth and a word is a sound, But we make them something neither cloth nor a sound, Totems of love and hate, black sorcery-stones. — Author: Stephen Vincent Benet

#22. I know that God is working through me within this sport. I know He’s put me here for a purpose and it’s not just to win medals. Winning is great and hopefully it gives me a platform to spread His love and spread His Word, but at the end of the day, I’m called to do what He wants me to do. — Author: Elana Meyers

#23. Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature. Be seperate. Do not be a social animal. — Author: Lewis Thomas

#24. What I feel for you…it can be neither quantified nor defined. It is so profound, so revolutionary, that no methods to date are equipped to even measure it. A new word should be imagined just to express the depth and scope of it, because ‘love’ does not even come close. — Author: Joanna Shupe

#25. A lover of men is very nearly the opposite of a philanthropist; indeed the pedantry of the Greek word carries something like a satire on itself. A philanthropist may be said to love anthropoids. But as St. Francis did not love humanity but men, so he did not love Christianity but Christ. — Author: G.K. Chesterton

#26. I think love is a hard word to define,» I say to her. «You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person. — Author: Colleen Hoover

#27. Despite appearances, Sym, Love is not a four-letter word. — Author: Geraldine McCaughrean

#28. Let us say «Yes» to life and not death. Let us say «Yes» to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say «Yes» to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints. — Author: Pope Francis

#29. Especially begging, on the part of one able to work, is not only the sin of slothfulness, but a violation of the duty of brotherly love according to the Apostle’s own word. — Author: Max Weber

#30. Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot be orchestrated, played, controlled or manipulated. You can not cup it tenderly in your open hand or wish it into being through fervent prayer. — Author: Vanessa G. Foster

#31. Want is quite a complicated word there, because there’s volo, which means I want, but it’s not usually used with people. Desidero? I feel the want of, I desire. Amabo? I will love. But what if I will never love? What if I will never desire? What if I will never want?
Numquam amabo? — Author: Ali Smith

#32. Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that’s one way I’ve figured out hot to describe love. — Author: Viet Thanh Nguyen

#33. Faith is only a word if there is no love at its center, so flaccid and lifeless, vague and hollow — not anything you could truly feel. — Author: Elif Shafak

#34. A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not. — Author: Henry Cloud

#35. For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets. — Author: Gordon B. Hinckley

#36. We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we’re counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love. — Author: Eric Weiner

#37. Love is not a substantial enough word for how I feel about you, Brycin. Never has been. — Author: Stacey Marie Brown

#38. So this is love:
the Sculptor’s chisel.
And stone, which in its whole life
does not utter a single word,
suddenly sings. — Author: Milan Rufus

#39. You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven. — Author: Amy Layne Litzelman

#40. A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God — to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children — is because we’re not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant. — Author: Matt Chandler

#41. As long as love is «blind» — that is, as long as it does not see a whole being — it does not yet truly stand under the basic word of relation. Hatred remains blind by its very nature; one can hate only part of a being. — Author: Martin Buber

#42. We do not make friends with God; God makes friends with us, bringing us to know him by making his love known to us … The word know, when used of God in this way, is a sovereign-grace word, pointing to God’s initiative in loving, choosing, redeeming, calling and preserving. — Author: J.I. Packer

#43. If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it’s meaning. — Author: Bell Hooks

#44. Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It’s weird. We have to call it «love,» because we have to call it something, but it’s not a word. It’s an energy. It’s an act. It’s an action. It’s a natural thing. — Author: Jason Mraz

#45. Religion is not knowledge. Religion is love. The word ‘religion’ comes from a root which means binding together — falling into love, becoming one. — Author: Rajneesh

#46. I will not make a sonnet from
Each little private martyrdom;
Nor out of love left dead with time
Construe a stanza or a rime.

We do not suffer to afford
The searched for and the subtle word:
There is too much that may not be
At the caprice of prosody. — Author: Joseph Auslander

#47. I can’t even think of the right word, but it’s not «help.» It’s more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we’re here, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so «tribe» and «belonging» are irreducible needs, like love. — Author: Brene Brown

#48. Love is not just a word that is spoken; it is an action that is taken and an emotion that awakens. — Author: Raneem Kayyali

#49. Because a loveless world,» said Jesus, «is a sightless world. If anyone loves me, he will carefully keep my word and my Father will love him — we’ll move right into the neighborhood! Not loving me means not keeping my words. The message you are hearing isn’t mine. It’s the — Author: Eugene H. Peterson

#50. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. — Author: Aleister Crowley

#51. I love chocolate mousse, that’s probably my favorite. I’m a big strawberry shortcake fan as well. I’m not mad at classic vanilla either. I’m not, I’m not sure what the word is. Cake discriminatory? Cakeist? — Author: Kevin McHale

#52. Forever is not a word … rather a place where two lovers go when true love takes them there. — Author: Stephanie

#53. This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty … what you will. — Author: Henry Miller

#54. God’s Word tells us that God has spoken of old in many portions and in many ways through His servants concerning His heart’s desire and that He loves us. But man did not understand. Therefore, God had to personally come to this world and become a man. This man is Jesus, the Christ, whom we know. — Author: Watchman Nee

#55. The destroyer is…'» Ethan wondered at the next word, expecting ‘horrific, ‘mad’, or even ‘a bitch’… Not forgetting that she did try to kill him, of course.
«Glorious,» he concluded to Ethan’s surprise. — Author: Louise G. White

#56. 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. — Author: David B. Haight

#57. My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. — Author: Saint Augustine

#58. Love without trust does not exist. Love is a strength of trust. Trust is the test of love. When you love, you trust each other. When you don’t, you don’t. Don’t camouflage the word «love» and not trust each other. — Author: Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#59. Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are. — Author: Dietrich Von Hildebrand

#60. My love for her was close to piety. You may think it strange that I should use this word, with its religious connotation, to describe my feeling towards a woman. But even now I believe — and I believe it very strongly — that true love is not so far removed from religious faith. — Author: Soseki Natsume

#61. Love is such a confusing word. You think I’m joking but I’m not. — Author: Michael Showalter

#62. Success … Is all about being able to extend love to people … not in a big capital-letter sense but in the everyday; little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word — Author: Ralph Fiennes

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