Love Quote by Thomas Traherne

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 source of all our other loves.

— Pierre Corneille

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

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite…

— Rollo May

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

To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us.

— Rhonda Byrne

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

— Fernando Pessoa

Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!

— Tess Holliday

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

— Rollo May

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

— Tyra Banks

“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate…

— Robert Galbraith

Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself.

— Jean-Francois de La Harpe