Love Quotes Quote by bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”

“To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.”

“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.”

“Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.”

““Wine enters through the mouth,”

“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”

““I think it’s beautiful”

“I love you more than I think I should.”

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”