The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
bell hooksIn our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information.
bell hooksWe are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential losers.
bell hooksMany of us learned that passivity lessened the possibility of attack.
bell hooksTo be loving we willingly hear each other's truth and, most important, we affirm the value of truth telling. Lies may make people feel better, but they do not help them to know love.
bell hooksBoth men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
bell hooksTag: love men women safety security relationship loveless
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
bell hooksKnowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
bell hooksConcurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.
bell hooksTag: love heart satisfaction desire relationship breakup object partner
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
bell hooksTag: despair loneliness isolation depression
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