Quotes About Self

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

I want someone to love me, for who I am; I want someone to need me, is that so bad?

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the universe now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are -our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

To me, photography is like a quest, or a pilgrimage, or a hunt. I love painting, I love music, but photography is what has allowed me to get outside of myself.

Let me ever love Thyself more than Thy service.

Life is not outside of you. You are life.

Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality." Am I solipsist?

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me.

Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are like shafts of light, always changing, and you change when you explore them.

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.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not in love, one is love.