Richard Bach Quotes

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.

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

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

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

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

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

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

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.