Compassion For Yourself Quotes

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.

Leo Buscaglia

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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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.

Rumi

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

Louise Hay

Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem

Louise L. Hay (2009). “You Can Heal Your Life”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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

Inspirational, Yoga, Love You

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship, Relationship, Positive

"The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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

Nhat Hanh

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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

Dalai Lama

Love, Inspirational, Life

"A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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

Jack Kornfield

Motivational, Buddhist, Yoga

Twitter post from Jan 31, 2015

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The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Carl Jung

Inspirational, Inspiring, Love Yourself

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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.

Wilferd Peterson

Love, Life, Attitude

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

Deborah Day

Self Esteem, Caring, Self Love

"Self-Care" by Pratibha, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2016.

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

Gautama Buddha

Happiness, Inspiring, Buddhist

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

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Sympathy, Helping Others

The Schweitzer Album It is our duty to remember at all times and anew that medicine is not only a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

"Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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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.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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

Simone de Beauvoir

Love, Life, Kindness

Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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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.

Gautama Buddha

Love, Inspirational, Positive

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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

Laozi

Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

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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.

Frederick Buechner

Forgiveness, Peace, Ignorance

FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Nov 15, 2016

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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.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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