Pema Chodron Quotes

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Learn what you are and be such.

I know the person I am, and I know the person I can be.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

Many of us don’t realize that we have a choice about which aspect of ourselves we will use as the foundation upon which we build our lives.

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life...I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

Love your self's self where it lives.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

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

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

I've always wanted people to know who they are from the inside. Then they can create the life they desire and deserve. I've always believed that my job was to facilitate the evolution of the human consciousness.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

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.'