Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
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.
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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