Have Compassion For Yourself Quotes

#1. Failure is a hard word for people to take. Use the word kindness then instead. Let yourself be kind. And this kindness comes from an understanding of what it is to be a human being. Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

Natalie Goldberg

#2. Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.

Brene Brown

#3. Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it ... you can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.

Monica Lewinsky

#4. If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Dalai Lama

#5. Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Jack Kornfield

#6. When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Henepola Gunaratana

#7. So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho'oponono technique.

Marci Shimoff

#8. Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. When

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else.

Lynda Lee-Potter

#10. If you're tired and pooped out all the time, do you have love and compassion in your heart for your fellow man? You don't even like yourself!

Jack LaLanne

#11. Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent ...

Lauren Mackler

#12. The next time you find yourself on the receiving end of a conversation assault, take a moment to have a little self-compassion. Remember that other introverts share your slow-talking tendencies, your hatred of small talk, and your disdain for the phone.

Michaela Chung

#13. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Louise L. Hay

#14. Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.

Doug Marlette

#15. If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

Joy Bryant

#17. It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?

Dalai Lama

#18. Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

Artur Davis

#19. The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self ...

Susanna Rowson

#20. I don't care for the colour of your skin, I care for the size of your heart behind it.

Nikki Rowe

#21. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

Sharon Salzberg

#22. Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Thomas Merton

#23. Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#24. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd