I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
BELL HOOKSEvery terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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A major part of love is commitment. If we are committed to someone, if I’m committed to loving you, then it’s not possible for me to fall out of love.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
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The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.
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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
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Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power – not because they don’t see it, but because they see it and they don’t want it to exist.
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Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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