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Self 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…
- People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
- 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…
- When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
- Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and…
- The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
- Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
- It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the…
- I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
- To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place…
- Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another.…
- The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in…
- Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
- All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world.…
- It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think…
- If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining,…
- The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search…
- Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to.…
- If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
More Self Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- Forgive yourself and get over 'self hatred.' In life, everybody screws up I mean everybody. Some people blame themselves for stuff, when… — Pacifiersucker