Self Love Quotes - Page 5

• This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

  Voltaire

  Love Is, Self, Giving

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.73

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• True self-love and social are the same.

  Alexander Pope

  Self, Social, True Self

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 4 (1734) l. 396

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• To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

  June Jordan

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Profound

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• True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

  Albert Camus

  Debauchery, Lovers, Obligation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.103, Vintage

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• The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Country, Self, Names

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.76

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• 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

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• When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of - onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul - love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Light, Shining

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Love You, Self, Looks

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• Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Order, Should

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

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• Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Self, Snakes

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• A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, Gentleman, Return

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Business

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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  I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

  Mark Twain

  Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

  Sally Field

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Contradiction, Exclusive

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence

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• Love yourself just as you are.

  Melody Beattie

  Love You, Love Yourself

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.

  James Franco

  Not Caring, Narcissistic, Care

  James Franco (2013). “Actors Anonymous”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  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

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• Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

  Jenn Proske

  Love, Loving Yourself, Stay Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

  Corita Kent

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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