To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
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.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
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 consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.
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