Bell Hooks Quotes

Let us open wide the windows of our hearts, that each family member may feel welcome and 'at home.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Wherever I find love I will accept it.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

Only love is consistent because only love is unconditional.

Real love is unconditional.

Don’t fuss. I love you just as you are, Mercy. I don’t need to swallow you whole, I don’t need to be in your head at all times. I just need to know that you’re there.

You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice.

Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

When you love another for who they are, whether they give you what you need or not, then you truly love them.

I love everybody. My heart's open to everybody.

I try to embrace people with love, unconditional love, like Christ did.

Love without attachment is light.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.