Pema Chodron Quotes

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.

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.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.