Self Love Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.”
– Magdeleine Sable

“Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.”
– Magdeleine Sable

“Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.”
– Magdeleine Sable

“Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.”
– Magdeleine Sable

“There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.”
– Magdeleine Sable

“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.”
– Mahatama Gandhi

“Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey. ”
– Malcolm De Chazal

“Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.”
– Mason Cooley

“Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ”
– Matthew Arnold

“If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than yourself, you will not succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is the great righteous person who, loving himself, loves all others equally. ”
– Meister Eckhart

“I am so hip even my errors are correct.”
– Nikki Giovanni

“We are trained to fear, resist, and fixate upon external enemies and to see ourselves as our most faithful and loyal friend. This is an inversion—most people never experience an external enemy that even begins to match the power of the opponent within. Although you may not know it, one of the greatest blessings that you can experience is a single moment of your life in which you are not your own worst enemy.”
– Paul Richards

“Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.”
– Philip Seymour Hoffman

“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”
– Pierre Corneille

“A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. ”
– Ram Dass

“The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love. ”
– Red Auerbach

“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
– Salma Hayek

“There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.”
– Samuel Richardson

“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all. ”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The degree to which you love yourself will determine your ability to love the other person, who will be reflecting back to you many of your own personality traits and qualities.”
– Sanaya Roman

“I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”
– Shailene Woodley

“My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am committed to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.”
– Shakti Gawain

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”
– Sophia Loren

“Do not wish to be anything except what you are. ”
– St. Francis De Sales

“Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.”
– Thomas Aquinas

“Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.”
– Thomas Traherne

“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”
– Tyra Banks

“If you’re not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.”
– Tyrese Gibson

“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”
– Voltaire

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