Self Love quotes
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"Love for yourself, love for the planet, love for each other. Love primarily for God - your number one relationship in life, your relationship to your source. Not something external to you, something that you're a part of, that you are connected to - just meditating on that, staying in that place, the place of God realization."
"The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure."
"He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love"
"Lick your neighbor as yourself!"
"Self-love is a busy prompter."
"Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one."
"A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up."
"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."
"It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself."
"...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love."
"We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love."
"I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write."
"Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves."
"The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them."
"Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you."
"I love who I am and all that I do."
