Compassion For Yourself Quotes

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

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.

So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

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.

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

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

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.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

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

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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.

Pause and remember - Stop mentally abusing yourself. Stop agonizing over your past mistakes and worrying about the future. Life is hard enough without the added fear, panic and anxiety. Your soul is crying out for love and encouragement. Take a moment to breathe deep, get present and find some compassion for yourself. Then, go out and treat yourself right; pamper yourself and take care of your needs. You are worth it!

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.