"The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming……" — Bell Hooks
"The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem."
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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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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
— Honore de Balzac
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I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get…
— Tyra Banks
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It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior…
— Melody Beattie
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No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No…
— Martha Beck
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
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The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
— Halle Berry
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I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.
— Ben Affleck
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
— Jo Brand
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
— Nathaniel Branden
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