Do we have to love ourselves or deny it?

Answer 1

love of course. if you deny it then your saying you dont exist . and if thats true then loving yourself wouldnt be possible . so you have nothing to lose if your wrong.

Answer 2

You must love yourself, each of us has something within us that is loveable and once you have found that you can be happy with yourself, it gives you the confidence to look for something 'loveable' in others. If you haven't found love in yourself you will not know what to look for in others and you will end up probably admiring shallow traits in other people. It is no use just thinking about the outer shell.

Answer 3

If one doesn't love oneself, it is because one doesn't think one is worthy of love. This is an evaluation. That means one trusts the evaluation, and that is part of oneself, so in a sense one is in love with the judgement and therefore with part of oneself. However, love is not partial, so this is contradictory. Hence it is only possible to hate oneself if one is divided against oneself or does not think it through. This is one reason why philosophy can be therapeutic, because it leads to positive self-love.

Answer 4

"learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all," as the song says.Loving yourself is the greatest love of all and we all need to love ourselves to have a full healthy balanced life. But when early experiences have shaped your core beliefs about yourself otherwise, can you learn to love yourself? Yes--although it’s easy to tell someone how and not as easy to do.

Love is a decision. Make the decision to love yourself in every moment--unconditionally--no matter what. Act and speak only in loving ways to yourself. If you have a child or a very dear friend then use your relationship to them as an example and never say or do anything to yourself that you wouldn’t also say or do to them! Love yourself for being who you are, doing what you do, saying what you say, thinking what you think, and feeling what you feel. When you do that, you make space for yourself to be, do, think, feel, express, and accept yourself as you are.

What you are unwilling to love in yourself becomes like a hard spot and is walled off, difficult to touch or reach--and when you love those harder to accept aspects of yourself, it becomes soft and easier to reach. When you find a therapist who is well suited to you and your particular needs, you will begin to soften the hard spots in you, to heal the wounds and traumas that have hurt you, and you will be able to take in the love you have always deserved.

Some people have been so hurt that they need an experience of someone else being able to love them unconditionally before they can love themselves. Therapy is based on a relationship of trust—mutual trust--and can help support and guide your efforts to examining and then letting go of self deprecating beliefs. And in that regard, therapy can be thought of as the means to giving yourself the greatest gift of all: Learning to love yourself!

Answer 5

We have to love ourselves to the extent that we just accept ourselves for who we truly are, instead of trying to change ourselves.

But don't over love yourself, otherwise you can become selfish, prideful and arrogant.

Answer 6

Yes, if we don't love ourselves, how can we love anyone or anything else.

Answer 7

We must love our neighbor and ourselves in order to love God.

Answer 8

Love yourself is a trendy nugget of BS. You can't love yourself, that is an oxymoron. Love is a process that can occur between two or more people.

Answer 9

Does the sun shine on the innocent and the wicked alike?

Answer 10

we must or life is not worth living