Quotes About Kindness To Yourself

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

Wayne Dyer

#2. When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Debbie Ford

#3. Love yourself to fill your heart with kindness.
Then love others to fill the world with happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself.

Louisa May Alcott

#5. Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbors more! He'd have to
you'd not grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself
no love, no kindness, no respect!

Mary Ann Shaffer

#6. Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#7. He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward. Separate from them and the result of your action will be a life of success.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#9. What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.

Steve Goodier

#10. What goes out always returns; remember to be kind to yourself.

Janni Styles

#11. It isn't a weakness to accept kindness. It isn't a weakness to allow yourself to be cared for.

Julie Anne Long

#12. When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation
not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

Geneen Roth

#13. Speak kindly to and of yourself.

Bryant McGill

#14. Softly he continued, "You need to ask God for forgiveness. That's His job, isn't it? To forgive imperfect humankind. You are quick to forgive others and offer them kindness. Do the same for yourself.

Mary Jo Putney

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

Pema Chodron

#16. If you decide to help someone
And you expect something in return
Don't fool yourself...
That's "business", not KINDNESS.

Jose N. Harris

#17. Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#18. Allow yourself to see the good in people. Not every sinister face harbors a wicked heart.

Nike Thaddeus

#19. You were thinking you had a chance to do what you always do," said James with kindness I didn't deserve. "You were going to give yourself up in order to save the people you love. It's a bit of a problem with you, you know.

Aimee Carter

#20. We can only diffuse kindness, to the souls filled with bitterness. This is the greatest deeds to awaken their good spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.

Alexandra Stoddard

#22. God provides something to you through somebody. Thats same God can give something to somebody through you. If you make yourself a greedy traffic on the way and deprive the final destined owner of what you supposed to keep provisionally, you make God upset.

Israelmore Ayivor

#23. My grandma said "if you do good, you do it to yourself", "if you do bad, you do it to yourself."
Be wise and do good.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Jack Kerouac

#25. Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.

Steve Maraboli

#26. Be kind to yourself and others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

Steve Maraboli

#28. Renew yourself with love. Wash away all the fear, hatred and societal conformity to create a brand new humanity filled with love, kindness and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Be kind to everyone you meet.
Give a little bit of yourself to mankind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Look inside yourself; there is always something special you can do today! Look around yourself; there is always someone special do it for! Don't spare what you have to share, show you care and dare not to make it rare!

Israelmore Ayivor

#31. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you, and keep away from people who bring you down.

Steve Maraboli

#32. Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.

Mark Twain

#33. Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

Edmund Bourne

#34. Surround yourself with friends and family who want to practice empathy and kindness. New mothers and parents are the ones who can benefit enormously from this support - we all can.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#35. Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.

Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#36. 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

#37. Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you hasten your ability to connect to the power of intention.

Wayne Dyer

#38. Love yourself and extend the love to others.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Pat Conroy

#40. You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!

Kemi Sogunle

#41. 8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?

Anonymous

#42. Think that today is the best day of your life and, with love and kindness, change yourself to begin the first day of the rest of your existing life.

Debasish Mridha

#43. At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yourself to show kindness to your fellow citizens.

Kiera Cass

#44. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Brian Tracy

#45. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

#46. Be kind. Be kind to others, be kind to animals, be kind to yourself. Smile at the mailman, pet your dog, buy yourself an ice cream cone. Spreading kindness in this world is the noblest thing a person can do.

Shenita Etwaroo

#47. Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.

Harold B. Lee

#48. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

Stacy London

#49. Empty yourself by giving with kindness, to fill it with joy again and again.

Debasish Mridha

#50. If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

Geneen Roth

#51. Change that does not lead to liberation from fear, greed and delusion is not wholesome. Furthermore, any change that does not yield more compassion and loving-kindness for yourself and others is a waste of precious life energy.

Phillip Moffitt

#52. Sometimes when you're struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist.

Truth Devour

#53. When the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

P.C. Cast

#54. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.

C.S. Lewis

#55. LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.

Stephanie Dowrick

#56. It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds

Alice Nicholls

#57. Rather than diluting the positive feelings by telling others about your own kindness, by keeping it to yourself you get to retain all the positive feelings.

Richard Carlson

#58. Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#59. Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#60. You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

Debasish Mridha

#61. To be led by the Spirit is not an spooky manifestation in life
but to be led by Jesus Christ himself and demonstrating love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control in your life and towards others around you.
Humble Yourself...

Louis

#62. When kindhearted people smile, demons shrink and turn away as if tormented by the gesture. But when those beautiful smiles are made to fade, every awful creature in the world stands surer. So do yourself and mankind a favor and smile BIG whether you feel like it or not.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#63. You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#64. Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

Shannon L. Alder

#65. When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

Sharon Salzberg

#66. Ask God for a special alertness to sense moments in this day when you can clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Thank the Lord for each person who has demonstrated one of those character traits of Jesus in your life.

Max Lucado

#67. When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue others.

John Patrick Hickey

#68. Educate yourself. Learn everything you can and then let knowledge yield to kindness.

Bryant McGill

#69. Don't try to please others at the expense of your values and your integrity. At the end of the day, you want to like yourself when you look in a mirror.

Millen Livis

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

Max Lucado

#71. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

John O'Donohue

#72. Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people's shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls.

Kellie Elmore

#73. Look at yourself. Hatred and anger, kindness and bravery. They are all yours, and rightly so. Accept this, face it straight on, then ask yourself what it means to change your destiny.

Miyuki Miyabe