"I have created a life style that supports……" — Bell Hooks
"I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words."
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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks has 251 quotes on this site.
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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
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The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
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Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
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People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
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Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
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I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
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The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
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Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…
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More Contemplation Quotes
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one of 533 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
— Aristotle
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He…
— Isaac Asimov
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I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation…
— Teresa of Avila
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
— Randolph Bourne
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
— Jacob Bronowski
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects…
— Samuel Alexander
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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of…
— John Jay Chapman
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If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
— Thomas Aquinas
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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
— Diane Arbus
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