love yourself before you can love others

whereismyrib SG

You must first love yourself before you can love others. How true is this statement? Is this in line with what the scripture is teaching? I have heard it quite often lately, from radio, from friend.

Icemoon SG

Isn't this what Christianity is teaching? Love your neighbours as yourself.

Cool-gal SG

any examples of us loving urself??
isnt it becoming selfish?
then i think im a selfish person..
Embarassed
im supposed to serve rather than to be served.

davidche SG

Never experienced this kind of situation before so dunno how true.

Well if really have to answer,.. true to a small extent. Laughing

alvin-ncs SG

love ur emenies... Confused

LyonK SG

marriage is the only war where enemies sleep with each other.

DjMatrix SG

a song of freedom is all i ever have

Cool-gal SG

u r so pessimistic...
-_-

LyonK SG

If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.

-- Mother Teresa

browniebaobao SG

i always tell my frens and myself the same thing.

if u dun love yourself enough, once u are in love, u will lose a great part of yourself.. and after breakup, u will find that u completely lost yourself..

SturmDerSchatten SG

Hmm. I find that loving oneself too much is a great danger; I tend to see myself as one who is here to serve others before my own needs. I’ve no great liking for myself, to be honest.

alvin-ncs SG

love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst nightmares.

LyonK SG

How can two parts together be whole if one part is not whole itself?

TheGoodEarth SG

WE already love ourselves. That is human nature. Don't you think that a lot of things we do, say, act, pretend, lie, love, imagine, proselyse - are all for ourselves? But to make it un-selfish, we say we do for charity, for goodness, for god, for society, blah..blah ...

dumbdumb! SG

i think loving yourself isn't about selfishness.

i mean, like, taking proper care of your body, eating right, exercising, sleeping well. facial, tooth care..

makes u feel good about yourself.

also talks about self esteem, loving yourself means finding worth in yourself too.. Smile

i need to learn how to hv better self esteem

Chin Eng SG

exactly, which is why you keep wanting to post in EH purely because of self-love? not because you merely wanted to debunk Christianity for the good of mankind? as I'd said: you're pathetic Twisted Evil

Chin Eng SG

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:34-40).

I don't believe scripture specifically say that you need to love yourself FIRST before loving others. Scripture does say, however, that in order to love others, we need to also love ourselves.

<Precious> SG

Beri true! Loving yourself means learning to appreciate yourself for whay you are, all your strengths AND weaknesses so that you actually are your best friend and you enjoy being yourself. Only then can you feel truly comfortable with yourself that you can be alone without feeling lonely...... Very Happy

At this stage, you want a partner not because you need someone's companionship. Rather, you want to find a partner because you want to share your joy and happiness......

sillyme SG

The Bible does not tell you to love yourself. But it does say that even if you do not love yourself, God still loves you because you are wonderfully made by Him.

If you believe that God loves you, you can choose to love Him back. You do this by allowing Him to change what is not desirable to Him.

davidche SG

you can be like some of my friends, insult all the weaker ppl they see, sure will boast self esteem and make yourself feel better de... Downside is that people will feel that you are very shallow.

I feel that the way to have better self esteem is to make more wise comments and bascially talk more. Also, thick high, then you will be high.You are what you think you are. If you always thick negatively of yourself, you will end up a loser and vice versa.