Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
You have to be in love with yourself before anyone else can fall in love with you; to be happy with yourself.
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.
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.
Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.
Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.
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.