No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.
How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.
Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.
We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.
We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
Compassion directed to oneself is humility.
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?
