A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.