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  • #1
    bell hooks
    “One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #2
    Gloria Steinem
    “Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
    Gloria Steinem

  • #3
    bell hooks
    “But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #4
    bell hooks
    “The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #5
    bell hooks
    “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. This is the most precious gift true love offers - the experience of knowing we always belong.”
    Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

  • #6
    Sally Rooney
    “It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #7
    Sally Rooney
    “Generally I find men are a lot more concerned with limiting the freedoms of women than exercising personal freedom for themselves.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #8
    Sally Rooney
    “Life is the thing you bring with you inside your own head.”
    Sally Rooney, Normal People

  • #9
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #10
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #11
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #12
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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