"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves." — Pema Chodron

"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."

— Pema Chodron

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360 Quotes by Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron has 360 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things…
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love…
Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to.…
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning…
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with…
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness…

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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and… — Karen Armstrong
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. — Arthur Baer
Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story… — Clive Barker
I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and delete every message that begins with… — Scott Adams
Where annual elections end where slavery begins. — John Quincy Adams
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. — John Berger
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.… — Samuel Beckett
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary… — Pope Benedict XVI
A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of… — Ruth Benedict
Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. — Ambrose Bierce

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