Self Love Quotes - Page 21

• Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;
  Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.
  Man, but for that no action could attend,
  And, but for this, were active to no end:
  Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
  To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot;
  Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void,
  Destroying others, by himself destroy'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Spring, Men, Self

  Alexander Pope (2012). “Essay on Man and Other Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Self-love is a busy prompter.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love Is, Self, Busy

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden”, p.469

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• If we listen to our self-love, we shall estimate our lot less by what it is than by what it is not; shall dwell upon its hindrances and be blind to its possibilities; and, comparing it only with imaginary lives, shall indulge in flattering dreams of what we should do if we had but power, and give if we had but wealth, and be if we had no temptations.

  James Martineau

  Dream, Self, Indulge In

  James Martineau (1905). “Tides of the Spirit: Selections from the Writings of James Martineau”

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• Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

  Jane Porter

  Men, Self, Mind

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• The world is governed by love,--self-love.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Self, World

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• Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.

  Arlene Francis

  Love Is, Self, Trouble

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Being Yourself, Badass

  "We Didn't Come to Saturday Night Live To Be Cute" by Tina Fey, www.slate.com. July 25, 2011.

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• The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.

  Adam Lambert

  Love, Way, Love You

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• When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.

  Adyashanti

  Love, Hate, Self

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing”, p.144, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... those, who from an immoderate and false self-love, study to keep their humanity under, always take care, for their own sakes, to represent poverty to themselves, as something ridiculous, mean, and contemptible.

  Mary Collyer

  Mean, Self, Humanity

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• Self-love knows no impediment.

  Lynda Obst

  Self, Knows, Impediments

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• Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Acceptance, Self, Forgiving

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• The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it, or not; but we can deprive ourselves of its indwelling joy, by acting entirely from the love of self.

  Lydia M. Child

  Self, Law, Joy

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• Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Love, Mirrors, Accepting

  Brenda Shoshanna (2004). “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.

  Horace

  Self, Vanity, Glasses

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• Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sacrifice, Self, Denial

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• Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Heart, Vanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.144

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• Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

  Anthony Holden

  Love, Running, Baseball

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• What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

  Edward Young

  Revenge, Self, Honor

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• Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Self, Vices, Virtue

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• Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Discovery, Self, Land

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• Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Love, Self, Doe

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.268

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• The voice within is what I'm married to. All marriage is a metaphor for that marriage. My lover is the place inside me where an honest yes and no come from. That's my true partner. It's always there.
  And to tell you yes when my integrity says no is to divorce that partner.

  Byron Katie

  Honesty, Integrity, Divorce

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• Law is for the society; love is for the individual. Law is how you behave with others; love is how you behave with yourself. Love is an inner flowering; law is an outward performance. Because you live with people you have to be lawful, but that is not enough - good, but not enough.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Law, People

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• There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"

  William James

  Real, Voice, Speak

  Letter to Alice Gibbons James, 1878

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