It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

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Truly loving another person requires that you must love yourself first. Once you have loved yourself, you will be able to love the people around you. Love is not something that one can learn in a book or in a day. It is something that you must learn by doing. You can’t expect to love others when you don’t love yourself.

Source: The Secret Of Staying In Love

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