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Self Love Quotes - Page 5

I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

"People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.

He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love

William Shakespeare, Philip Brockbank (1976). “Coriolanus: Second Series”, p.41, Cengage Learning EMEA

Self-love is a busy prompter.

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden”, p.469

Lick your neighbor as yourself!

Samuel Beckett (1970). “Endgame, a Play in One Act: Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Player”

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.

Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.174, Penguin