Pema Chodron Quotes

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Never be so busy as not to think of others.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.

True humility means giving joy to others.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

When a friend is sick, I see the situation for what it is, not what it isn't, and I offer to help as much as she wants, not as much as I want.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I would like to explain the meaning of compassion, which is often misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether another person is a close friend

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

I think really that's just the basic Christian lesson that sometimes takes us years and years to understand - have equal concern for another human being as you have for yourself or perhaps even more concern for another human being than you have for yourself.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.