Francis Bacon Quotes

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.

Our first and last love is self-love.

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

If the Ego is hateful, Love your neighbor as yourself becomes a cruel irony.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.