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.
BELL HOOKSThe rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
More Bell Hooks Quotes
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To know love we have to invest time and commitment.
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Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
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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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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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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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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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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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To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
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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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I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
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