Pema Chodron Quotes

Don't put so much pressure on yourself. Be happy with who you are and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself. You've got a long time to figure everything out and there's no rush. Enjoy the now.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

I will love myself as long as I never make a mistake.

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Don't forget to love yourself.

In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

It's more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I'm never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.