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Love Is Quotes by Bell Hooks
- Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with…
- The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else…
- Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that…
- Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
- The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.
- 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…
- Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
- But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
- The transformative power of love is not fully embraced in our society because we often wrongly believe that torment and anguish are our ‘natural’ condition.
- Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will…
- Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
- Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
- Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair…
- When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to…
More Love Is 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
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with… — Marcus Aurelius
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the… — Sai Baba
- When love is not madness, it is not love. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca