La Dulce Vidaa: I'm Livin' It

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It's not your fault that I was broken; you didn't know how to fix yourself, so how could you repair me?

wowww. wow, wow, wow. her words connect so much with my own personal life at times.

@alexandraelle

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I've learned to say 'no'. I can't be everything to everyone else if I am nothing to myself.

alexandraelle 

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Sometimes you have to be still, be silent and greet adversity with love. It's important that we find balance and comfort in what we gain and lose.

alexandraelle #loveinmylanguage #lovetrio #lovebomb

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Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.

Let us not forget their voices

[ladulcevidaa-blog]

For most folks it is just too threatening to embrace a definition of love that would no longer enable us to see love present in our families.

Bell Hooks

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Love and abuse cannot coexist.

Bell Hooks 

[ladulcevidaa-blog]

To truly love we must mix various ingredients--care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication

Bell Hooks

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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. September 15, 1963. A date we truly should #NeverForget. Addie Mae Collins. 14 Cynthia Wesley. 14. Carole Robertson. 14. Denise McNair. 11.

#BlackLivesMatter #BlackHistory #Birmingham

[ladulcevidaa-blog]

"We use the word love in such a sloppy way that it can mean almost nothing or absolutely everything."

Diane Ackerman

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"If our society had a commonly held understanding of the meaning of love, the act of loving would not be so mystifying."

Bell Hooks

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"The wise (wo)man comes to God without saying a word and stands in awe of HIm."

Francis Chan

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"It is easier to articulate the pain of love's absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives."

Bell Hooks

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"While ours is a nation wherein the vast majority of citizens are followers of religious faiths that proclaim the transformative power of love, many people feel that they do not have a clue how to love."

Bell Hooks

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"We want to know love. We are simply afraid the desire to know too much about love will lead us closer and closer to the abyss of lovelessness."

Bell Hooks

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The Love Trio

In a journey of rediscovering my ability to love myself & share my love, I am reading the following books:

[Spiritual] Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan

[Intellectual] All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

[Emotional] Love in My Language by Alex Elle

[ladulcevidaa-blog]

I write of love to bear witness both to the danger in this movement and to call for a return to love. Redeemed and restored, love returns to us the promise of everlasting life. When we love we can let our hearts speak.

Bell Hooks

My thoughts: God is love. (1 John 4:8)

[rabbitinthemoon-blog]

Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.

Marianne Williamson (via rabbitinthemoon)