Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
BELL HOOKSWhen we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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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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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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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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When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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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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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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If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
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We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they’re beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.
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All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
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If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.
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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified.
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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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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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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.
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To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
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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 people I love, I’m committed to loving for the rest of my life.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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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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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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Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
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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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The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
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Feminism is for everybody.
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