Self Love Quotes - Page 18

• Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Bears, Taste

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• A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

  James Mackintosh

  Self, Vices, Harbors

  Sir James Mackintosh (1834). “A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, p.117

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• Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Self, Judging

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• We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

  Judith Viorst

  Self, Infancy, Being Loved

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Love Is, Thinking, Self

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.110

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• An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!

  Hillary Carlip

  Uplifting, Book, Self

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• However tiresome to others, the most indefatigable orator is never tedious to himself. The sound of his own voice never loses its harmony to his own ear; and among the delusions, which self-love is ever assiduous in attempting to pass upon virtue, he fancies himself to be sounding the sweetest tones

  John Quincy Adams

  Love Is, Voice, Self

  John Quincy Adams (1810). “Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory: Delivered to the Classes of Senior and Junior Sophisters in Harvard University”, p.102

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• .. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.

  Sharon Olds

  Love Is, Community, Bird

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• You are a child of the universe, "fearfully and wonderfully made." In the history of creation, there has never been anyone like you. Accept this reality about yourself- that you are a special, unique human being who has a place on this earth that no one else can fill. Acknowledge yourself as a glorious expression of your loving Creator. This healthy self-love will form the foundation of a joyful and satisfying life. Then, as you love and accept yourself, your inner light will shine outward to bless and heal your fellow human beings.

  Douglas Bloch

  Children, Reality, Unique

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• Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Passion, Self

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

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• Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.

  John Eliot

  Thinking, Achievement, Negative

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Jealousy

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• Love for Kuwait is always prior to self-love, money, and children.. In the heart of every Kuwaiti, Kuwait's love grew it's seeds, spread its roots and branches all around our good land

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Children, Heart, Self

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• The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Acceptance, Reflection, Journey

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• It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.

  Christian Scriver

  Dream, Men, Self

  Christian Scriver (1857). “Gotthold's Emblems: or Invisible things understood by things that are made. Tr. by R. Menzies”, p.128

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• Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Pain, Reflection, Self

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• Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
  In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
  Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
  With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

  Philip Larkin

  Love, Morning, Fire

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• Lick your neighbor as yourself!

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Neighbor

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “Endgame, a Play in One Act: Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Player”

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• I believe one of our souls' major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it's safe to do so. Self-condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It's only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self-love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do.

  Sue Thoele

  Encouragement, Believe, Live Life

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• By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we surrender of innocent love of self is exchanged for the safeties and pleasures of belonging to a larger whole. We are born dependent, but only imagination can bind our passions to other human beings.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Passion, Self, Safety

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Significant Change, Safety

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• The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophical, Self, Color

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• That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Self, Two

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Giving, Stubborn

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love is only a dance.
  I'll try to apply myself
  And teach my heart how to sing.
  I'll go my way by myself
  Like a bird on the wing
  I'll face the unknown,
  I'll build a world of my own;
  No one knows better than
  I myself I'm by myself alone.

  Howard Dietz

  Love Is, Way, My Way

  "Dancing in the dark".

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