Self-love

"Self-love We have reached a point where no one loves anyone as everyone is running after one thing, which is their own interest If the interest ends love melts away When the interest ends love becomes a lie and hypocrisy It is the age of interests and appearances In every human relationship, you find deception and betrayal Hearts have become dry and feelings are fake, with no honesty or sincerity In the past love was spontaneous and sincere but today it is conditional on interests and material things It is rare to find someone who loves you for yourself and sacrifices for you without expecting anything in return. We live in a time when we wait for a respectable person to make mistakes so that we can prove to people that he is not respectful. Some people are like perfume you like its scent but it does not last long O Allah the Changer of hearts make our hearts firm upon your religion and make our hearts pure and sincere sincere for your sake.~~ March 21, 2025"

"Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius."

"Now, so far as I can judge, self-love is the root of all evil;"

"Since the world does not really believe in God, in the long run the God-fearing person must really love himself. The God-fearing person does not love what the world loves, but then what is left—God and himself. The world takes God away, and therefore the God-fearing person loves himself. The world regards the fear of God as self-love."

"Ofttimes nothing profits more Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well manag'd."

"To observations which ourselves we make, We grow more partial for th' observer's sake."

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting."

"O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself."

"I to myself am dearer than a friend."

"This 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 conceal it."

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it."

"It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you truly love others. It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. When you feel centered and alive, you are in a much better position to be a better person."

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

"Wer sich nicht zu viel dünkt ist viel mehr als er glaubt."

"A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them."

"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers."

"Voyez le beau rendez-vous qu'il me donne; cet homme là n'a jamais aimé que lui-même."

"Le moi est haïssable."

"But respect yourself most of all."

"Sans doute Je peux apprendre à coqueriquer: je glougloute."

"Without doubt I can teach crowing: for I gobble."

"Et sonnant d'avance sa victoire, Mon chant jaillit si net, si fier, si peremptoire, Que l'horizon, saisi d'un rose tremblement, M'obéit."

"Je recule Ébloui de me voir moi même tout vermeil Et d'avoir, moi, le coq, fait élever le soleil."

"I am the most concerned in my own interests."

"L'amour-propre offensé ne pardonne jamais."