"Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to refuse guidance...A useful gift all love's practitioners can give is the offering of forgiveness. It not only allows us to move away from blame, from seeing others as the cause of our sustained lovelessness, but it enables us to experience agency, to know we can be responsible for giving and finding love."

-- Bell Hooks

#Love Quotes #Moving Quotes #Teaching Quotes

“I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”
“You'd have to think that if he'd been around today, Rod Laver would have been Rod Laver.”
“If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain.”
“Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.”

Source : "5 Minutes with Hoda Kotb". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 12, 2010.
“To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.”
“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1856). “Leigh Hunt's Works”
“Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.”

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