“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.” MenSelfHelpingBodyMotherOrderPassionLosesPrayerLove IsSelf LovePureDrivingGod LoveRejectsAttachmentIrritationRancor Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man.” MenMeanValuesFightingVirtueHumilityPrideSelf LoveVicesProtectiveRagsValue Yourself Author:John Galt
“Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?” MenSelfHurtSelf LoveStrikesBest Friend Author:Lew Wallace
“How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.” MenLooksSelfPastForgetAirBuildingSelf LoveImportanceEnvironmentalStaringCastlesCalamityNature BeautyBroodingVacantMusingsSelf-importanceCastles In The AirBuilding Castles In The Air Author:Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps