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 HOOKSI think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain 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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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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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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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people’s spirits.
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The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
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There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
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