Pema Chodron Quotes

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

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

Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.

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

Be kind to all and severe to thyself.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

Be the love you seek.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Be as good to yourself as you are to those you love.

Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

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

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.

A real good artist learns to be a better person through all the changes they've been through. They keep their loving and honesty growing and learn to look at the world and not be full of hatred.

Embrace your vulnerability and celebrate your flaws; it will let you appreciate the world around you and make you more compassionate.

When you allow yourself to really think about the future and the legacy you're leaving, you become gentler.

PBS was just such an awesome resource for a child's early development. And now I realize Mister Rogers is also an awesome resource for an adult's development because his philosophies are just timeless and are so relevant and are so important and are so simple and just something we can all grasp onto easily.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.