"When they have really learned to love..." - Quote by C S Lewis
When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.
More by C S Lewis
“If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.”
“If you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten, be original without ever having noticed it.”
“The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.”
More on Love
“Now no joy but lacks salt That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove.”
“Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.”
“He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.”
More on Self Love
“Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.”
“Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.”
“Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.”