“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”
Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States
"The Land of Love", p. 172
Awareness (1992)
Context: Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
“Love isn’t something you have, it’s something you do.”
Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States
“you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song
Source: The Last Song
Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer
Source: Night Film
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208