Inner Kindness Quotes

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

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

I've become really strict in a lot of ways, but I'm also very lenient. I'm kind to myself.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

This is for anyone reading this who wants to explore it. Recognize the thought, "Afraid of loving," then gently put your hand on your heart to send a message of kindness.

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.

Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'

If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

I'm like Shrek. Shrek's a nice guy, but people keep alienating him, like they did with me in my younger life. I'm very loving and kind and generous - I'm a sweetheart!

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart.

Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.

Today, no matter where I am going, no matter what I am doing, it is my dominant intent to be good to me.

My father looked like this serious guy but was actually a very kind person.

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

Minnie loves everyone, unconditionally. That's the way she sees the world, which is probably one of the reasons she is as popular as she is.

My father was like an unpolished diamond - tough outside but warm inside.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.