Debbie Ford Quotes

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

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.

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.

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.

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

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.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

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

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?

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

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

I knew I could hold myself with that absolute love and compassion.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.