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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
-Lucille Ball
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"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
-Buddha
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Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
-Joseph Campbell
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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
-Albert Camus
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
-Benjamin Franklin
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love — if in this human being he loves his neighbour.
-Søren Kierkegaard
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The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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You are told to love your neighbour as yourself. How do you love yourself? When I look into my own mind, I find that I do not love myself by thinking myself a dear old chap or having affectionate feelings. I do not think that I love myself because I am particularly good, but just because I am myself and quite apart from my character. I might detest something which I have done. Nevertheless, I do not cease to love myself. In other words, that definite distinction that Christians make between hating sin and loving the sinner is one that you have been making in your own case since you were born. You dislike what you have done, but you don't cease to love yourself. You may even think that you ought to be hanged. You may even think that you ought to go to the Police and own up and be hanged. Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
-C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock by C. S. Lewis, Walter Hooper
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
-Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert, 1960
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"Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.”
-M Scott Peck
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I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
-Theodore Rubin, "Love Me, Love My Fool", 1976
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Books about Self-love
