There is no love; there are only proofs of love. Whatever love I might feel in my heart, others will see only my action.
Interpretation
Love is demonstrated through actions rather than just feelings.
This quote emphasizes that love is not merely an emotion experienced internally, but is instead expressed through tangible actions. It suggests that to truly convey love to others, one must demonstrate it through their behavior, as feelings can remain invisible unless acted upon.
In practice
In a wedding speech to highlight the importance of actions in a relationship.
I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul The former love has never gone away, But let it not recall to you my dole; I wish not sadden you in any way. I loved you silently, without hope, fully, In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain; I loved you so tenderly and truly, As let you else be loved by any man.
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
A conditional love is nothing but an infatuation, sexuality. Unconditional is the only way love can be. Wherever a condition comes in, love disappears. It cannot live in bondage, and a condition gives it an imprisonment. Love can only live like the vast sky. Love knows no boundaries.
When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared; trouble was split. You had an ally.
Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.
Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.
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