The Tao of Love Quotes

“If we cannot love ourselves, where will we draw our love  for  anyone  else?   People  who  do  not   love themselves  can adore others, because adoration is making   someone  else  big  and  ourselves   small.  They can desire others because desire comes out  of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled.  But they cannot love others, because love is  an affirmation of the living, growing being in  all of us.  If you don't have it, you can't give it.[4]”
― Ivan Hoffman, The Tao of Love