Love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
BELL HOOKSWhen 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.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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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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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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You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.
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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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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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There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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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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Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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Living simply makes loving simple.
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