Doe Quote by Joseph Butler

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being…

— Bell Hooks

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…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

— Tyra Banks

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good:…

— Joseph Butler

Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our…

— Caroline Myss

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.

— Rollo May

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally…

— Joseph Butler

Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Self-love is meant to be your foundation. It is your birthright. Once you get it – once you really feel what it is like…

— Annette Vaillancourt

Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a…

— Anonymous