People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
When you're miserable, you don't want anyone around you to be happy.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Every human being I know craves love and affection.