Julia Cameron Quotes

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

Look upon yourself only with compassion.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Gentle to others, to himself severe.

Interestingly, God's remedy for Elijah's depression was not a refresher course in theology but food and sleep... Before God spoke to him at all, Elijah was fed twice and given a good chance to sleep. Only then, and very gently, did God confront him with his error. This is always God's way. Having made us as human beings, He respects our humanness and treats us with integrity. That is, He treats us true to the truth of who we are. It is human beings and not God who have made spirituality impractical.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Treat yourself at least as well as you treat other people.

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

Only if you're kind to yourself, can you be kind to others.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

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

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

Consider yourself your own kid. Take care of yourself the way you would your own child. You wouldn't wait until your child was crying to take care of him/her.

Patanjali said that when you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Steadfast means you never slip. I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.