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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
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.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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.
If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
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.