Adore Quote by Susan L. Taylor

Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it…

— Dalai Lama

If you live to please others, you aren't pleasing yourself. Love and happiness must grow in your own heart before you can truly give…

— Brittany

Love does not seek to please itself, but offers itself and its life to others.

— Frederick Lenz

We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside…

— Nhat Hanh

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes…

— Thomas Merton

Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So…

— Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all…

— Erich Fromm

There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

— Mina Loy

“People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because…

— Andrew Matthews

We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love…

— Jennifer James

“this post-modern individualism is harmful, that we—Western society—have become lazy in our dependencies and relationships. To say, ‘Don’t attempt to love another until you…

— Penny Reid