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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken." (Russell, Bertrand - Experts)

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Browse Quotations about Self-love

A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Be that self which one truly is.
Do not wish to be anything except what you are.
Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
Learn what you are and be such.
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
Our first and last love is... self-love.
People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.
Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

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