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Experience Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to…
- In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with…
- Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
- Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to…
- There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is…
- Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.
- Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what…
- Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those…
- schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept…
- A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such love we need never fear abandonment.…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. — Bernard Baruch