"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression……" — Bell Hooks

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

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251 Quotes by Bell Hooks

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The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love,…
Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we…
The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength…
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would…
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if…
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of…
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to…
I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via…
The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself…
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of…

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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our… — Hannah Arendt
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause… — Mahmoud Abbas
In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial. — Richard Armour
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the… — Antonin Artaud
I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the… — Irving Babbitt
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So… — Michelle Bachelet

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