Compassion For Yourself Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Joseph Campbell

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Appreciation

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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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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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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.

Albert Schweitzer

Freedom, Kindness, Compassion

Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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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.

Dalai Lama

Love, Karma, Religious

"Especially for Christians: Powerful Thought-provoking Words from the Past" by Mark Alton Rose, (p. 19), 2005.

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

Confucius

Inspirational, Wisdom, Courage

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You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

Inspirational, Kindness, Compassion

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

Mason Cooley

Inspirational, Compassion, Caregivers

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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.

George Washington Carver

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

Bindi Irwin

Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Your Beautiful

Instagram post by Bindi Irwin @bindisueirwin, www.instagram.com. June 2, 2015.

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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.

Parker J. Palmer

Selfish, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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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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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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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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