Famous Quotes about virtue

Bell Hooks famous quote #359

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved the mother was not true to her bond of love then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partners love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mothers love because he is not worthy as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past it merely reenacts it for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful in being dominant.
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Sherrilyn Kenyon quote #148 from Devil May Cry

She didnt understand that. How can anyone be afraid of loveHow can they not His face was completely aghast. When you love someone... truly love them friend or lover you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurtyou literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike its cripplinglike having your heart carved out. It leaves you naked and exposed wondering what you did to make them want to hurt you so badly when all you did was love them. What is so wrong with you that no one can keep faith with you That no one can love you To have it happen once is bad enough... but to have it repeated Who in their right mind would not be terrified of that
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Toni Morrison famous quote #303

You think because he doesnt love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesnt want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Dont. Its a bad word belong. Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldnt be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain They circle all around it sometimes you cant even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what You go up top and what do you see His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through beacuse the clouds let him they dont wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high free with nothing to hide him or bind him. You cant own a human being. You cant lose what you dont own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you You really want somebody like that Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door You dont do you And neither does he. Youre turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away hand it to him then why should it mean any more to him He cant value you more than you value yourself.
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