Self-Love Quotes
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron -
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Baruch Spinoza
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Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.
Emilie du Chatelet -
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Self-love is so monogamous that no one is going to take the trouble to break the affair up for you.
Arlene Francis -
Eloquence is a way of saying things in such a way, first, that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure, and second, that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal -
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Thomas Aquinas -
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
George Eliot
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Self-love is the starting point for everything.
Susan L. Taylor -
Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.
Austin Osman Spare -
Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love.
Soren Kierkegaard -
As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot -
I've learned through the years how to base my identity and sense of self-worth on myself and not others. I've learned the most critical tool of all: self-love. Now, if it doesn't work out with someone, sure, I'll be hurt. But I'll be bruised, not broken. And I may lose my balance, but I won't be wiped off my feet.
Amy Chan -
What you need to do is harness the self-love you are hypostasizing as offspring, as the next generation of you, and let it branch out horizontally into the possibility of a transpersonal revolutionary subject in the present and coconstruct a world in which moments can be something other than the elements of profit.
Ben Lerner