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“Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.”

Thinking Self Love Is Opinion Self Love Taste Dresses Contrary Customs Egotism Flattered

Book:Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

Source: Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

“Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.”

Self Seems Love Is Party Self Love Gorgeous Conceit

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

“always thinks of the other; ego thinks only of oneself. Love is always considerate; ego is absolutely inconsiderate. Ego has only one language and that is of self. Ego always uses the other; love is ready to be used, love is ready to serve.”

Thinking Love Self Use Used Language Love Is Ready Self Love Ego Oneself Considerate Inconsiderate

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“Self-love is always the mainspring, more or less concealed, of our actions; it is the wind which swells the sails, without which the ship could not go.”

Self Action Love Is Wind Self Love Ships Sail Our Actions Concealed

Author:Emilie du Chatelet

“God's love is so perfect that He lovingly requires us to obey His commandments because He knows that only through obedience to His laws can we become perfect, as He is. For this reason, God's anger and His wrath are not a contradiction of His love but an evidence of His love. Every parent knows that you can love a child totally and completely while still being creatively angry and disappointed at that child's self-defeating behavior.”

“Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.”

Love Self Values Born Love Is Highest Response Enjoyment Admiration

Author:Ayn Rand

“Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.”

Self Sin Love Is Self Love Canon

Author:William Shakespeare

“That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.”

Knows Self Fall Love Is Falling In Love Isolated Inseparable Emergence Old Self New Self

Author:Joseph Conrad

“Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.”

Love Kind Self Love Is Self Love Selfishness Propose Bargains Disinterested Love Always Disinterested Love

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.”

People Men World Self Love Is Self Love Sake Tyranny Selfishness Tyrants

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.”

Love Self Love Is Practice Mastery Self Mastery

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.”

Thinking Self Difficult Love Is Treats Our Relationship Treat Yourself

Author:Javier Bardem

“I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.”

People Thinking Feels Self Term Justice Love Is West Misunderstood

Author:Bell Hooks

“Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.”

Men Inspirational Soul Self Christian Turns Religious Prayer Love Is Fruit Denial God Love Orthodox Abiding Renunciation Self-denial

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.”

Love Persons Self Happiness Love Is Family Love You Self Love Concerned Valentine's Day Anniversary Happy Anniversary Marriage Anniversary Anniversary Love

Author:David Frost

“Self love is the instrument of our preservation.”

Love Self Love Is Self Love Instruments Preservation Provision Anorexia Eating Disorder Self Preservation Preservation Of Life

Book:A Philosophical Dictionary

Source: A Philosophical Dictionary

“From a Christian perspective, the answer to all of that is not power, as it is in the modern perspective. It's love. It's self-sacrifice. That's what love is all about. The marriage ceremony says it very well: sacrifice is difficult, but love can make it a joy.”

Wells Self Christian Joy Difficult Answers Love Is Sacrifice Modern Perspective Ceremony Self Sacrifice Marriage Ceremony

Author:Francis George

“The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?”

Thinking Littles Long Self Love Is Self Love Sorrow Labor Heavy Loyal Inward

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?”

Self Action Natural Love Is Principles Self Love Praise Rewards Punishment Motive Irresistible

Book:The Portable Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Portable Benjamin Franklin

“The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.”

Men Self Spirit Lost Love Is Plans Blood Design Bird Conscious And Love Following Flight Desert Living My Life Faded Aboriginal Nomad

Author:Laurens van der Post

“The story of Love is the story of Love of Self.”

Self Stories Love Is Self Love

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Love is a many-sided sacrifice; it means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed.”

Mean Self Love Is Doubt Sacrifice Impulse No Doubt Gratification True Love Is Thoughtfulness Self Gratification

Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“Self-love is a big part of golf.”

Self Bigs Love Is Self Love Golf

Author:Lewis Black

“A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.”

Self Joy Love Is Expression Labor Fulfillment Self Expression Exalted Personal Fulfillment Labor Of Love Fulfillment In Life

Book:What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“Since true listening involves a setting aside of the self, it also temporarily involves a total acceptance of the others. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will feel less and less vulnerable, and more and more inclined to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener. As this happens, speaker and listener begin to appreciate each other more and more, and the dance of love is begun again.”

Feels Mind Self Happens Love Is Acceptance Listening Appreciate Setting Settings Vulnerable Speakers Listeners Recess Listening To Others Sensing Speak Less

Book:The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.”

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