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Quotes About Self

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.
~ Rumi
Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you
~ Bette Midler
From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is is possible that we live as though it is about us?
~ Francis Chan
Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.
~ Alex Gaskarth
Only do what you love, only pursue what feels like you.
~ Jenna Lyons
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
~ Rita Mae Brown
When someone says, 'I love you,' he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, 'I hate you,' she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views-literally.
~ Adyashanti
To say I love you is to say that you are not mine, but rather your own.
~ Carter Heyward
You do not have to change for God to love you.
~ Anthony de Mello
Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.
~ Elif Safak
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
~ Marquis de Sade
Most souls labor under a self imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love.
~ Michael Xavier
Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
~ Pearl Bailey
What love lays bare in me is energy.
~ Roland Barthes
They will love me for that which destroys me.
~ Sarah Kane
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
~ Shelley Winters
It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs to me because...you are always me.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.
~ Augustine of Hippo
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
~ Luigi Pirandello
Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.
~ Erich Fromm
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.
~ Erich Fromm
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
~ Franz Kafka
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
~ Charles Darwin