Pema Chodron Quotes

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Loving kindness is the spirit of friendship toward yourself and others.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

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

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

I always seem drawn to people who need help, and I've needed help, too. I've had to learn to love myself.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

You don't have to be a Kerli fan to be a Moon Child, and you don't have to be a Moon Child to be a Kerli fan. You just have to make the best of what you have and have compassion for yourself and for others always.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.

Be kind to everyone, and don't leave yourself out of the equation.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.