TALKING ABOUT SELF-LOVE
Self-love is defined as “a state of
deep appreciation for yourself, built through actions that support your
physical, psychological, and spiritual growth.” It is also known as “the practice of treating
yourself with the same kindness, respect, and forgiveness that you would extend
to a cherished friend,”
A very brief definition is worded as
the feeling that your own happiness and wishes are important.
Self-love is not self-respect or
self-praise. It is also not selfishness.
It is self-care. If you don’t fulfill the demands of your body and mind, you
cannot surviv.
Self-love does not mean hatred for
others. A Biblical saying advises us to love our neighbours as ourselves.
The English poet and playwright
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) said: Self-love is no so vile a sin as
self-neglecting.
These days our friends and relatives
bid us farewell by saying: Take care of yourself.
Here are a few famous quotes on the
subject of self-love.
*Of all
mankind each loves himself the best,---Terence –Roman comic poet (190-150 ).
*The most
amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.---French
essayist and moralist Jean de la Bruyere9(1645-96 ).
*The cause
of all the blunders committed by man arises from excessive self-love. He who
intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor, his own things,
but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by
another.---Greek philosopher Plato (427-347 B, C,)
*Self-love
is an instrument useful but dangerous: it often wounds the hand which makes use
of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.----Swiss philosopher Jean Jacques
Rousseau (1718-98).
*Offended
self-love never forgives.—French poet and playwright Louise Jean Baptiste Vigee’(1758-1820).
*Self-love
leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.---English
novelist Jane Porter1776-1850).
*Self-love
is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the
perpetuity of mankind—it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure,
and we must possess it. ---French writer and philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778).
And finally:
*Love
thyself last.----English poet and playwright William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
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G.R.Kanwal
15 June 2026
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