Self Love Quotes - Page 17

• 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.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love Is, Self, People

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• The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Selfish, Passion

  "Letters of Two Brides". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1841-1842.

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• The third doorway is the Doorway of Unconditional Self-love, which corresponds to the energy center located in the solar plexus area. As I said earlier, the key to feeling love and living in love is having self-love. I mean real unconditional self-love, not "I love myself because I'm a good wife" or "I love myself because I do a good job at work" or "I love myself because I look a particular way." It's because I love myself no matter what. That's where our real power lies, in the ability to love ourselves unconditionally.

  Marci Shimoff

  Jobs, Lying, Real

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Love Is, Self

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• Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.

  Alice Walker

  Love You, Love Is, Hair

  "Alice in Walkerland: The “PBS American Masters”". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Self, Community

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Self, Charity

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• What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

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• Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

  Mortimer Adler

  Wish, Immortality, Perpetuating

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• Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Children, Self, Ends

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

  George MacDonald

  Love, Doors, Self

  George MacDonald (1887). “God's Words to His Children: Sermons Spoken and Unspoken”

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• They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Hurt, Laughing

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• Romance is a means to the end of self-completion, but love is an end in itself.

  Gloria Steinem

  Love, Mean, Self

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.341, Open Road Media

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• True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, True Friend, Self

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

  Joseph Joubert

  Love, Men, Should

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

  Saint Augustine

  Hurt, Enemy, Earth

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• In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

  John Leo

  Self, Feelings, Age

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• ... divine love is not something belonging to God: it is God Himself.

  Henri Bergson

  Love, Divine, Belonging

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• Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Love Is, Self, Hatred

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Self, Order

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• Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Love You, Self Respect

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• Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

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• The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Education, Self, People

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• Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Kind

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