Bell Hooks Quotes

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem's going to go up.

I guess Judd (Apatow) is my soul mate because we have a lot of hard times, and it's great at times, too.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

Love doesn't care how much money you have.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Without love, there can be no connection, no future, and no success together.

I'm not opposed to falling in love.

The art of love is who you share it with.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

Love naturally reverses the idea of obedience, and causes the struggle between any two who truly love each other to be, not who shall command, but who shall yield.

I barely knew I had skin before I met you.

Caleb," I say, "I love you." His eyes gleam with tear as he says, "I love you, too, Beatrice.

I find that falling in love is way more fun than just having that instant attraction that you have to maintain for a relationship.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.