Quotes
"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself." Barbara De Angelis
"The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
"You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not."
Cheri Huber
"What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves." Cheri Huber
"Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance." Alexander Lowen
"If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself." Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche
"Allow whatever this moment contains. No matter what event or happening or situation, say 'yes' to it. Allow it to be." Eckhart Tolle
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." Oscar Wilde
"In all the great spiritual traditions, at their heart is tenderness--just to be kind inside, and then everything rights itself. Fear rests. Confusion rests."
Pamela Wilson
"It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others." Unknown
"Hoping a situation will change keeps you at a distance from your true feelings--sadness, anger, fear. Each of these feelings is best appreciated up close. Feel them deeply, and they will cease to bother you. Hope they'll go away, and they'll bother you all day." Gay Hendricks
"Self-compassion is approaching ourselves, our inner experience with spaciousness, with the quality of allowing which has a quality of gentleness. Instead of our usual tendency to want to get over something, to fix it, to make it go away, the path of compassion is totally different. Compassion allows."
Robert Gonzales
