Martha Beck Quotes

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

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 a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Love, and do what you like.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

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

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

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

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

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.

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.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

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.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that will reveal and then resolve old sorrows - awaits us within ourselves.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.