Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Self Love

• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

• We must be our own before we can be another's.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Soulmate, Love Yourself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.351, Library of America

• Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

• Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom

• Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sacrifice, Love Is, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2499, Delphi Classics

• A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

• Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Self, Foreigners

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.156, Penguin

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