Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions Quotes
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.
When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.
Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can inspire us and give us the courage to make necessary changes.
We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.
When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights - that we respect and uphold their rights.
There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.
Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.
Those of us who have already chosen to embrace a love ethic, know that when we let our light shine, we draw to us and are drawn to other bearers of light. We are not alone.
Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable us to overcome fear if we trust that they will not lead us astray or abandon us along the way.
Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself
Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power.
It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.
The mutual practice of giving and receiving is an everyday ritual when we know true love.
When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.
The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.