Thomas a Kempis Quotes

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?

Friendship with oneself is all important.

If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Ever since I met Sangram Singh, I am at peace with myself.

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.

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

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

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

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

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

Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

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

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

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

The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.