Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
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 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.
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
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.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.