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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

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.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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.