SELFLOVE

Self-love

Self-love is the love of oneself. In 1956, psychologist and social philosopher Erich Fromm proposed that loving oneself is different from being arrogant, conceited or egocentric. He proposed that loving oneself means caring about oneself, taking responsibility for oneself, respecting oneself, and knowing oneself . He proposed, further, that in order to be able to truly love another person, a person needs first to love oneself in this way.

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