Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
BELL HOOKSKnowing 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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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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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe – not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.
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Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that’s feminism.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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I think the Women’s movement has had a major impact on everybody’s lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.
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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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