Bell Hooks Quotes

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

The affirmation of one's own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one's capacity to love.

True self-love and social are the same.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full.

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.