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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde
In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness -- Leo Buscaglia
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire. -- Irvin D. Yalom
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy. -- Matthieu Ricard
One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
One must not love oneself so much, as to avoid getting involved in the risks of life that history demands of us, and those that fend off danger will lose their lives. -- Oscar Romero
Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself. -- Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. -- Oscar Wilde
We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. -- Pope Francis
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. -- Jean Anouilh
Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love. -- Baruch Spinoza
Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love. -- Martin Buber
Love is a state of being in harmony with oneself. -- Anodea Judith
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much. -- Marty Rubin
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. -- Meher Baba
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -- Iris Murdoch
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. -- Iris Murdoch
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it. -- Andre Gide
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others. -- Ayn Rand
It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself. -- John Steinbeck
One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself. -- Cassandra Clare
Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. -- Tony Judt
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself! -- Belle de Jour
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires. -- George Sand
Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love. -- Orhan Pamuk
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. -- Malcolm McDowell
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself.... -- Joe McMahon
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. -- Isabelle Adjani
... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself. -- Leo Tolstoy
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality -- John Stuart Mill
Upon discovering truth, the natural love one has for oneself expands until it encompasses the whole world. This Love removes the ego. -- Mooji
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. -- Leo Tolstoy
The minute you celebrate narcissism, which on one hand is very complex, it's very ridiculous. You have to love oneself with humor. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. -- Erich Fromm
Those who truly love and respect you will respect your boundaries. I think freeing oneself from codependency and fear is vital for well-being. -- Maria Canals Barrera
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love. -- Pico Iyer
One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. -- Albert Camus
In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself. -- Jean Anouilh
What we love intensely or for a long time we are likely to bring within the citadel, and to assert as part of oneself. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The overall message is 'one love,' which means love begins with oneself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone around you. -- Simphiwe Dana
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. -- Marlene Dietrich
To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. -- H. G. Wells
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all. -- Dorothy Day
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. -- Gloria Steinem
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity. -- Soren Kierkegaard
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. -- Cesare Pavese
To love, you close your eyes. To do good, you deceive oneself. To be honest, you ditch oneself. To be good, you have to transcend all the three ideas. -- Harshit Walia
The love of someone else is more accessible or more possible if one lives with a sense of loving embrace towards oneself because that extends out into the world. -- Roger Housden
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound. -- Klaus Mann
It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you." -- Tara Brach
It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow. -- Elfriede Jelinek

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