Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
In plain words
Being a friend to yourself is what lets you be a friend to anyone else.
Where these words come from
- 45% sureLots of sources credit Eleanor Roosevelt with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Attributed to You Learn by Living (1960); consistent multi-source (non-aggregator-exclusive) attribution to this specific book, but archive.org's only two scans of the book are both now pulled ('item not available'), so primary verbatim confirmation remains impossible.
