Pema Chodron Quotes

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

I would say that the thrust of my life has been initially about getting free, and then realizing that my freedom is not independent of everybody else. Then I am arriving at that circle where one works on oneself as a gift to other people so that one doesn't create more suffering. I help people as a work on myself and I work on myself to help people.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

I love to help people live fully - I guess because I'm always striving towards that myself!

I do the same thing for myself (as an actor) that I do for others.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

All of us, regardless of how we identify, need a community in which to grow our faith. We require the tangle of other souls to enlarge our hearts, to perfect our relationships with one another and to help us understand more deeply our better Selves (big 'S').

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

I hope that what I am today is of positive benefit to other people.

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

I want to continue to grow and evolve, and I want to help other people grow and evolve.

I can't gain anything off of anyone else not succeeding.

Changing someone else's life positively changes yours for the better as well.

I'm not a big AA guy, but I'll go every once in a while. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it's really true.

I always want to be a person who challenges herself to be a better person and spends her time giving rather than receiving.

If my story can help someone to better themselves in life, then so be it.

The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.