"Active consumption is patriotic and being patriotic involves loving oneself," argued an essay in Liaowang, an official journal.
"Loving oneself," he argued, is the "libidinal complement to the egoism of the instinct of self-preservation".
When asked what Infinity is about, the mother of young twins with Cannon said it was about loving oneself first.
Both writers dispense aphorisms with a wink — the elder on learning to love dandelion greens and cockscombs with wine in the heyday of Jell-O, the younger on learning to love oneself, post-marital meltdown.
Damazio began a short, chatty sermon about the importance of loving oneself, and God, unconditionally that I think could have charitably been described as accessible, maybe less charitably as lightweight — and which at the time seemed pretty nice to me.
He liked to quote the ending of Georges Bernanos's 1936 novel, Diary Of A Country Priest: "It is easier than one thinks to hate oneself... the ultimate blessing would be to be able to love oneself humbly, just like any other suffering member of Christ".
The TaskRabbit aspect is about loving oneself — you know, enough to outsource tasks to someone else.
And given that the species of natural love follows the mode of being, it follows that it is more perfect to love oneself than to love another (Quodl. II, q. 20, p. 206, 148 – p. 149, 165).
On the contrary, his defense of self-love makes it clear that he is not willing to defend the bare idea that one ought to love oneself alone or above others; he defends self-love only when this emotion is tied to the correct theory of where one's good lies, for it is only in this way that he can show that self-love need not be a destructive passion.
To love oneself is the ticket to happiness!
