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The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Joel Osteen

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Joel Osteen
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 5
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Houston
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Joel Scott Osteen
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