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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.
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.