Quotes on Self Love

I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?

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.

We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves.

When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.

I listen with love to my body's messages.

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.

One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Love has no thought of self!_x000D_ _x000D_ Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold_x000D_ _x000D_ The loathsome prostitution of a hand_x000D_ _x000D_ Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things_x000D_ _x000D_ To bless the thing it loves!

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

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

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