"If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man. Thus he is a great an righteous person who, loving himself, loves all other equally."
— Meister Eckhart
"If an individual is able to love productively, he love himself too; if he can only love others, he cannot love at all."
— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (on self love being not only unselfish but necessary)
"Genuine love is an expression of productiveness and implies care, respect, responsibility and knowledge… An active striving for the growth and happiness of the loved person, rooted in one’s own capacity to love."
— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
"To love somebody is not just a strong feeling— it is a decision, it is a judgement, it is a promise."
— Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving
I’m just going to say this because I feel it & saying it means it’s going to be true…
I’M BAAAAAAAAAAACK!
(back as in: poo-poo to negative feelings, and a warm welcome embrace to my normal happy awesome self)
As a kid, I was always more responsible than selfish, and this week, I’m turning 25 (Wooo!).
Excuse me in advance, but I’m going to be as selfish as I want to this week (still probably not that bad). Thanks :)
You Only Live Once :D
