You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
BELL HOOKSMy idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
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If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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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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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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