Affection 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 then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and…

— Joseph Butler

Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome…

— Luce Irigaray

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…

— Emilie du Chatelet

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

— Rollo May

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Tyra Banks

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

— Pierre Corneille

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 a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action…

— Isaac D'Israeli

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all…

— Thomas Traherne

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in…

— Ashley Nell Tipton