Bell Hooks Quotes

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

It isn't enough to love; we must prove it.

Love is a verb and verbs show action

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.

L'amour n'est pas seulement un sentiment, il est un art aussi. Love is not only a feeling; it is also an art.

Love needs to be proved by action.

The test of love is in how we live.

No one will know what you mean by saying that 'God is love' unless you act it as well.

Love is not a feeling to be felt, it's an action to be learned.

You can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'

I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

They do not love that do not show their love.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Action is the right outlet of emotion.

We write love songs because love is a part of our lives.

The ultimate language of love is music... The ultimate connector.

Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.

Love, I find, is like singing.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

To speak of love is to make love.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.