Bell Hooks Quotes

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Compassion, loyalty, and respect sum up love for me - it's a mix that's very rare to find and even harder to imbibe.

I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that.

We should never close our doors on love.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

You have to give love to get love.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I have been in love, and it was a great feeling. It's when you are attracted to and feel affection for someone. You want to do things for that person. But only love isn't enough in a relationship - understanding and communication are very important aspects.

Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

If you wished to be loved, love.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.