self-love

How To Use self-love In A Sentence

• 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
• The greatest obstacle to our progress in love is our own self-love, our own ego and our self-regard.
• 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
• 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
• Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. Lord Chesterfield 
• 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
• The phrase amour-propre since 'propre' means clean elides 'self-love' and 'clean-love'. Archive 2007-05-01
• 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
• If you struggle with self-love, perfectionism, or chronic People Pleasing, you might be a codependent.
• Attempts have been made to subordinate sympathy to self-love, but they appear to me perverse.