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Quotes About Self

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
~ Albert Camus
God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
~ Mary J. Blige
We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.
~ Dianna Agron
It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
~ Dalai Lama
To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive
~ Tariq Ramadan
I love people. People are lovely creatures. I'm one myself, so I love to see people happy.
~ Tom Hardy
One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.
~ Jessica Lange
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
~ William Blake
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
~ Aidan Chambers
Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
~ Galway Kinnell
You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you, and so you seek without for what you cannot find within.
~ Kenneth Wapnick
If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.
~ Paul Valery
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
~ Bar Refaeli
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)
~ Fernando Pessoa
To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on
~ Richard Gere
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
~ Garchen Rinpoche
Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within
~ Helen Keller
Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The things we love tell us who we are.
~ Thomas Aquinas
There is love in this world, and it lives within us as who we really are, not who we think we are.
~ Krishna Das
Love your rage, not your cage.
~ Alan Moore
As long as the "I" is there, love cannot be. All that we call love is only desire, longing, passion and attachment; as long as ego is there, all these bind one.
~ Rajneesh
Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
~ Anne Carson