Connections Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image “We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Connections Love Parody Pretense Self Self love Settling
Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy. — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
It is a singular characteristic of love that we cannot hide it where it exists, or pretend it where it does not exist. — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“Parental affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse self-love;” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I guess at it's very core love is connection that just makes so much sense you wonder how you used to live before you… — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection… — Naomi Ragen Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is a different ball of wax. I've been trying to say for I don't know how many months now that the traditional… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to play a normal princess who always walks around in nice dresses. I never had a connection to it when I… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection.… — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
On the road, I try to maintain my connections with friends and family as much as I possibly can. That keeps me pretty grounded. — Noelle Scaggs Copy Share Image
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