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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.
-Samuel Johnson
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Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
-Sally Kempton
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Be that self which one truly is.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love
-Soren 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.
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao-Tzu
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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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.
-Maxwell Maltz
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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.
-Orison Swett Marden
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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.
-Andrew Matthews
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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.
-Andrew Matthews
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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.
-John McKay
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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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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.
-Norman Vincent Peale
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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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Learn what you are and be such.
-Pindar
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Self-love seems so often unrequited.
-Anthony Powell
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Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
-Pythagoras
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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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Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
-William Shakespeare
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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
-Jake Steinfeld
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Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
-Jeremy Taylor
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If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-Ted Turner
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
-Source Unknown
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Books about Self-love
