Loving oneself

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Topic

Loving oneself Self-expression

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Song of Myself Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 1, I. 1.

I celebrate myself and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Topic

Taking it easy Loving oneself

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Song of Myself Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 1, I. 1.

I was born this way.

Lady Gaga

Born This Way

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Topic

Sexuality Loving oneself

Speaker

Lady Gaga

Source

Born This Way

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Lady Gaga and Jeppe Laursen. "Born This Way." Performed by Lady Gaga. Born This Way. Streamline/Kon Live/Interscope, 2011.

We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Topic

Loving oneself What other people think

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 12.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 12.

I love you, but I love me more.

Samantha

Sex and the City

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Topic

Loving oneself

Speaker

Samantha

Actor

Kim Cattrall

Source

Sex and the City

Medium

TV program

Genre

Romantic comedy (TV) Comedy (TV) Romantic comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Profession of love

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

"Luck Be an Old Lady." Sex and the City, written by Darren Star and Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky, directed by John David Coles, season 5, episode 3, Darren Star Productions, 2002.

As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

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Topic

Loving one's neighbor Self-hatred Loving oneself Love

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Steppenwolf

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.