Quotes about Self
To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
— Leo Buscaglia
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
— Thomas Merton
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
— Leo Buscaglia
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
— CS Lewis
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
— Leo Buscaglia
Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.
— Louise Hay
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
— St. Augustine
The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.
— Marianne Williamson
To love others you must first love yourself.
— Leo Buscaglia
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
— CS Lewis
Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.
— Denzel Washington