To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
BELL HOOKSTo know love we have to invest time and commitment.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
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Patriarchy has no gender.
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It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
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I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.
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I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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