Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
BELL HOOKSA 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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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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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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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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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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much”. Indeed, no woman writer can write “too much”. No woman has ever written enough.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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