Pema Chodron Quotes

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable.

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

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

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

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.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

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.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. it's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. when you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

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

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you.

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