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Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself

Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself
– bell hooks

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  1. I tell them that love is always there-“that nothing can keep us from love if we dare to seek it and to treasure what we find. – bell hooks
  2. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It’s not what you do but how you do it. – bell hooks
  3. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving… There can be no love without justice. – bell hooks
  4. Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life. – bell hooks
  5. Addiction makes love impossible. – bell hooks
  6. Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to? – bell hooks
  7. Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. – bell hooks
  8. Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world. – bell hooks
  9. Feminist movement is pro-family. – bell hooks
  10. To understand feminism it implies one has to necessarily understand sexism. – bell hooks
  11. The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. – bell hooks
  12. Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same. – bell hooks
  13. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that. – bell hooks
  14. As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. – bell hooks
  15. First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men. – bell hooks
  16. ..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. – bell hooks
  17. Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. – bell hooks
  18. Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune. – bell hooks
  19. True resistance begins with people confronting pain… and wanting to do something to change it. – bell hooks
  20. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape. – bell hooks
  21. Action, like a sacrament, is the visible form of an invisible spirit, an outward manifestation of an inward power. – bell hooks
  22. Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.- – Bell Hooks – Win Quier
  23. black identities are diverse and complex-¦ – bell hooks
  24. 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 we know. – bell hooks
  25. The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over. – bell hooks
  26. It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power. – bell hooks
  27. To critique sexist images without offering alternatives is an incomplete intervention. Critique in and of itself does not lead to change. – bell hooks
  28. Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else… That someone else is you. – Brey King
  29. If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy. – Toni Sorenson
  30. You can NEVER be like someone else! Just be yourself and you will find that you’ll be much happier that way and accomplish more as well. – Surgeo Bell
  31. In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice. – Todd Stocker
  32. My mother’s last word to me clanks inside me like an iron bell that someone beats at dinnertime: love, love, love, love, love. – Cheryl Strayed
  33. What good’s a black face if it means I’m just someone else’s property? Why give me these arms and legs just to carry someone else’s load, not my own? – Stacey Lee
  34. You yourself could be nothing more than a shadow, someone else’s dream who is, themselves, someone else’s. – Kelly Creagh
  35. Never Expect Loyalty From A Person That Can’t Give You Honesty. – Surgeo Bell
  36. Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive. – Brittany Burgunder
  37. The only possible match for someone who doesn’t know how to receive is someone who doesn’t know how to give. – Amanda Owen
  38. Teaching is a gift you give not only to others, but also to yourself. You give and you receive, you teach and you learn. – Andrea Goeglein
  39. Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. – Donald L Hicks
  40. I take my food very seriously. Whenever I hear that bell, I know Mrs. Norris is hankerin’ for some spam. – Sandy Ward Bell

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