How To Use Self-love In A Sentence
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Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father's land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.
The Praise of Folly
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Donegan, the owner and director of New York's Bikram Yoga Lower East Side, stepped out of her hot yoga studio to answer her "celly," as she calls her cell phone, and a few questions about Gaga's five minutes of self-love.
Lady Gaga's Yoga Instructor on Self-Compassion
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Self-honoring or self-love may seem like an odd step for job hunters, but being able to accept yourself, without judgment,(sentence dictionary) helps eliminate insecurities and will make you more self-assured.
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Moreover, his perpetual struggle with men and things leave them no time for the coxcombry of fashionable genius, which makes haste to gather in the harvests of a fugitive season, and whose vanity and self-love are as petty and exacting as a custom-house which levies tithes on all that comes in its way.
Modeste Mignon
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Self-love also means forgiving yourself for any misdeeds or harmful thoughts.
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Does internationalism not foster regionalism, with all the self-contempt and self-love that that involves (as we see in, say, international tennis)?
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The reason of this is obviously self-love, which partly overbears the natural operations of this principle.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
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But excessive self-love, or narcissism, could actually increase violence in schools.
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The whole book is an exercise in self-love, disguised as an exercise in self-abnegation.
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Our ˜natural benevolent affections™ guide us to do good toward some small sector of humankind (a small sector composed of our friends, promisees, colleagues, family, etc.), and stifling such natural tendencies would leave only “a very feeble counterpoise to self-love” and thus little from which to develop a more extended and generalized benevolence (434).
Special Obligations
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Comics bring a long history of manifesting cultural anxieties, both self-love and self-loathing.
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In the dining-room there was now a Sicilian called Gianni: sallow, with black crinkly hair and appalling teeth, he exuded self-love.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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If you struggle with self-love, perfectionism, or chronic People Pleasing, you might be a codependent.
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In other words, the leader does not look to the followers for affiliative assurance to reinforce his or her self-love, but strives to assist followers to internalize the vision and work to realize it.
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That overlooks or minimizes the element in sadism (and in all sin) of self-love in preference to other goods, including the Supreme Good.
"The Playboy and the Pope"
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Isha Judd is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and author; her latest book and movie, Why Walk When You Can Fly? explain her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness.
Isha Judd: Are You Like Your Mother?
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Having already removed the prejudices against public spirit, or the love of our neighbour, on the side of private interest and self-love, I proceed to the particular explanation of the precept before us, by showing, _Who is our neighbour_: _In what sense we are required to love him as ourselves_; _The influence such love would have upon our behaviour in life_; and lastly, _How this commandment comprehends in it all others_.
Human Nature and Other Sermons
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The reference to self-love was not at all a subtle one.
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War is an escape, for a people, from a kind of subjectivism, from the evils of a self-love to perhaps the greater evils of self-assertion.
The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
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The comparative poverty of the young couple and the absence of a corbeille quickened the interest that people love to exhibit; for it is with beneficence as with ovations, we prefer the deeds of charity which gratify self-love.
Eve and David
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High levels of self-esteem were thought to reflect self-love, in this sense, while poor self-esteem reflected inadequate self-love.
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If we fail to recognize the basic goodness contained within all our experiences, self-doubt blooms like algae in water, clogging up the natural flow of self-love that keeps us healthy.
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self-love that shut out everyone else
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He takes it for granted that self-love is properly condemned whenever it can be shown to be harmful to the community.
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The superpower of the ancient world was influenced both by God and by the demons of materialism, violence, self-love, fraud, and usury.
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As the horseleech is never satisfied, often continuing to gorge itself until it bursts, so self-love is never contented, crying ‘Give, give.’
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Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
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We should not conclude that pity or other instinctual affections, or even rational self-love, are bad.
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Because we feel unpleasant when we don't love ourselves, this belief goes, the threat that our self-love might be withdrawn will motivate us to do a good job.
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To give but one example, the kind of talk in which most of us indulge is morally evil and spiritually dangerous, for most of what we say is inspired by greed, sensuality, self-love, malice, uncharitableness or pure imbecility.
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He impugned the painful process that many of us had to go through and are still going through in order to embrace ourselves with self-love and self-worth in the face of a world which at times tells us to hate ourselves.
Alvin McEwen: Tracey Morgan, His Defenders and Heterosexual Privilege
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Jupiter’s two vessels, which unceasingly poured forth good and evil; the cloud embraced by Ixion, which is the emblem and punishment of an ambitious man; and the death of Narcissus, which is the punishment of self-love.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Thus group self-contempt went hand in hand with group self-love, and especially that aspect of it that tried to ‘externalise’ its altruistic tendencies.
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And yet there are distinctions of considerable im - portance between apes and man, enough difference so that, quite fairly and without too much self-love on our own part, man may be put into a third catarrhine family all by himself, Hominidae (hoh-min'ih-dee; "man" L).
The Human Brain
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The character chose dissoluteness over self-determination in his endless pursuit of self-love.
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Yet this luxury of self-love was checked by a misanthropical spitefulness, resulting from the terrible wound she had received, — although by this time she was beginning to think of that wound as a disappointment only.
Modeste Mignon
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Attempts have been made to subordinate sympathy to self-love, but they appear to me perverse.
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III. i.14 (63,3) [For all the accommodations, that thou bear'st Are nurs'd by baseness] Dr. Warburton is undoubtedly mistaken in supposing that by _baseness_ is meant _self-love_ here assigned as the motive of all human actions.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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Self-love, and love of others, are equally natural; and before reason is developed, and the proper spiritual life begins, sweet and beautiful childhood may bloom out and imparadise our mortal life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
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Argue if you must, but anyone who goes the eponymous route with his band, and then plays every single instrument on his solitary efforts, has got to be sporting heavy self-love.
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He finds as much self-loathing there as self-love.
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Slavery and the slave trade, however, denied self-love to the slave, provoking permanent discontent and possible rebellion.
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In the first stage, the innate, initial impulse of a living organism, plant, or animal is self-love and not pleasure, as the rival Epicureans contend.
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Not only is that morally mistaken, but it is also militarily ruinous, for any armed service which is based upon or rooted in its members' self-love is doomed to failure and disgrace.
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Not only so, but from this same unslumbering quality of self-love you have to develop regard for others.
Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
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If you struggle with self-love, perfectionism, or chronic People Pleasing, you might be a codependent.
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Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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The phrase amour-propre since 'propre' means clean elides 'self-love' and 'clean-love'.
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But what do I speak of any one or the other particular kind of men, as if this self-love had not the same effect everywhere and rendered most men superabundantly happy?
In Praise of Folly
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Lord Chesterfield
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Forasmuch as this self-love is so natural to them all that they had rather part with their father’s land than their foolish opinions; but chiefly players, fiddlers, orators, and poets, of which the more ignorant each of them is, the more insolently he pleases himself, that is to say vaunts and spreads out his plumes.
In Praise of Folly
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It's about fatism and prejuidice, it's about self-love and health, it's about self-hate and jealousy -- but it's got just enough sexual tension and puppy love to make watching it a real joy.
Sunny Gold: Between Body Image and Health: Having a Conversation About Fat
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The greatest obstacle to our progress in love is our own self-love, our own ego and our self-regard.
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By definition, narcissism is "excessive self-love" and stems from a mythical youth who fell in love with his own reflection.
Narcissism can make politicians leaders ... and cheaters
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Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
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It is a most apt and elegant expression of the Roman emperor Marcus Antioninus to this purpose, who says, "Such an inordinate self-love is like an ulcer, or imposthumated part, that draweth all to itself, and starveth the body to which it belongs.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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It nourishes our self-love, self worth and self-confidence.
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Each one of us has measures of self-love and self-loathing.
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But it will be said, perhaps, that candidates for [122] political influence and leadership, who thus caress the self-love of those whose suffrages they desire, know quite well that they are not saying the sheer truth as reason sees it, but that they are using a sort of conventional language, or what we call clap-trap, which is essential to the working of representative institutions.
Culture and Anarchy
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It takes courage and vigilance to create a context where self-love can emerge.
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Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is tickled in his self-love.
Les Miserables
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Self-love has indeed many powers of seducement; but it surely ought not to exalt any individual to equality with the collective body of mankind, or persuade him that a benefit conferred on him is equivalent to every other virtue.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
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I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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Malvolio (Des McAleer) is a haughty major-domo, but where is his festering self-love and manic insecurity?
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Self-opinion and self-love are the great strong holds which the gospel sets itself to beat down; for by nature we are as prone to overvalue as to overlove ourselves; but in both of them there is a kind of spiritual fulness and repletion, which must be removed and carried off, before the gospel can have its effect upon us.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
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Dearest brothers in Christ sweet Jesus: I Catherine, servant and slave of the servants of Jesus Christ, write to you in His precious Blood: with desire to see you divested of the old man and clothed with the new -- divested, that is, of the world and the fleshly self-love which is the old sin of Adam, and clothed with the new Christ sweet Jesus, and His tender charity.
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
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Here it's all about self-love and girl bonding.
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Because human knowledge is so limited and fallible, the order we perceive in society would seem to be an unintended consequence of private decisions driven by self-love.
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I think this, in part, is why self-love and self-hate co-exist in my poems, as they did in life.
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Arrgh… Time to uncork a bottle of wine and drink a toast to the cloying self-love that swirls through my lovely little city.
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Isha Judd is an internationally renowned spiritual teacher and author; her latest book and movie, "Why Walk When You Can Fly?" explain her system for self-love and the expansion of consciousness.
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