To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.― bell hooks,

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Living simply makes loving simple. ― bell hooks

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The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization. ― bell hooks

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You know, people ask me. They say 'Dan, three years later do you really want to be drawing cat whiskers on your face?' but they don't understand. The cat whiskers, they come from within. ― Dan Howell

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If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.

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It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.- Donald Trump

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. ― Shannon L. Alder

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When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics. ― Frank Ocean

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The problem, as I see it, is that you've been told and not told. You've been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.

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