Pema Chodron Quotes

When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

The religion of humanity is love.

Help each other. Love everyone. Every leaf. Every ray of light. Forgive.

Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.

The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.

My religion is, to live through Love.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

I would say I'm a nice person, and I take pride in the fact that I treat everyone really well, so there's no reason for anyone to ever come at me because I only want the best for everybody else.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

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

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.