My 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.
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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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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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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it’s not unfamiliar to you. It’s always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
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I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
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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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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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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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Forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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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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Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
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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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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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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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I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
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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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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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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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