Bell Hooks Quotes

Love and meaningful relationships are vital to physical and emotional well-being.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

The reason for living is to have great relationships, to have people you love and respect and who love and respect you.

If love exists between two persons, it is blessed. If love does not exist between two persons, then all your laws put together cannot bridge them. Then they exist separate, then they exist apart, then they exist in conflict, then they exist always in war. And they create all kinds of trouble for each other. They are nasty to each other, nagging to each other, possessive of each other, violent, oppressive, dominating, dictatorial.

Loving becomes, and the ability to love, becomes one of the most important things in life.

I am not talking about what every one of us means by love. Little namby-pamby love is lovely. Man rails in love with woman, and woman goes to die for man. The chances are that in five minutes John kicks Jane, and Jane kicks John. This is a materialism and no love at all. If John could really love Jane, he would be perfect that moment.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

I think romance basically starts with respect. And new romance always starts with respect. Like the song 'Love the One You're With'; there is something to that. It's not just make love to whomever you're with, it's just love whomever you're with.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

The way I see it is that love can put an end to this bureaucracy people go through in their relationships. But it can't blind you to the fact that maybe there are bombs, there are problems and the ozone layer is depleting.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

I do think it's very important, if you're going to spend the rest of your life with somebody, to know that you really like them. Because when the pheromones wear off, which of course they will, you have to have a strong basis.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

My friends are real human beings. They and my family keep me very grounded.

Mackenzie, you cannot produce trust, just as you cannot 'do' humility. It either is or is not. Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved. Because you do not know that I love you, you cannot trust me.