Self Love Quotes - Page 9

• Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Self, Giving, Soul

  Austin Osman Spare (2007). “The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life”, p.18, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love

  James E. Faust

  Compassion, Hard Times, Self

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• Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

  Jill Scott

  Real, Love Is, Appreciate

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• The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

  Joseph Butler

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  Joseph Butler (1856). “The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons”, p.490

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• When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Self, Growth

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• Self-love is the starting point for everything.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Love Is, Self, Starting

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• I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

  Jenna Fischer

  Book, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2011.

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• Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Oneself

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.126, Image

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• Feel good about being someone who loves selflessly. I think someday you’ll find someone who loves you the exact same way.

  Taylor Swift

  Love You, Thinking, Feel Good

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• Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Being Yourself, Love You, Awakening

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• Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.

  Jennifer Young

  Recovery, Loss, Self

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• There is a self-love solution for every challenge.

  Abiola Abrams

  Self, Challenges, Solutions

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• Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
  Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
  That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
  Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
  Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Age

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self.

  William Saroyan

  Love, Moving, Simple

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• The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

  Bell Hooks

  Self Esteem, Heart, Overcoming

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• Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

  J. California Cooper

  Giving Up, Real, Struggle

  FaceBook post by J. California Cooper from Oct 23, 2016

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• I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Looks, Tough, Mum

  "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.

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• Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish.

  Aristotle

  Character, Self, Support

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Self, Experience

  Bernadette Roberts (1993). “The Experience of No-Self: A Contemplative Journey”, p.155, SUNY Press

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• The existence of God is infinite love itself.

  Masahisa Goi

  Love, Infinite, Existence

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• Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

  Rollo May

  Love, Self, People In Your Life

  "Man's Search for Himself".

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• Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.

  Charles W. Chesnutt

  Roots, Self, African American

  Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.382, Penguin

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• One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Giving, Doe

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• But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

  Edie Brickell

  Love You, Creative, Music Love

  "Edie Brickell Ready for 'Picture Perfect' Comeback". www.today.com. December 31, 2003.

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