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Quotes About Mindfulness

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
~ Pema Chodron
You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.
~ Gautama Buddha
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
~ Wayne Dyer
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
~ Pema Chodron
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.
~ Thubten Yeshe
My Brain and My Heart are my Temples. My true Religion is Kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.
~ Geneen Roth
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
~ Epictetus
Gentleness towards self and others makes life a little lighter.
~ Deborah Day, BE HAPPY NOW!
Try in thine own experience, each; that he speak not for one whole day unkindly of any... and see what such a day would bring to you.
~ Edgar Cayce
The more you nurture a feeling of loving kindness, the happier and calmer you will be.
~ Dalai Lama
Be mindful, exercise kindness, to yourselves, to each other.
~ Danielle Cormack
Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.
~ Pema Chodron
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
~ Jack Kornfield
Watering the flowers and the trees, whispering to them, talking to them. Then, they will grow to be more bright and luxuriant.
~ Gautama Buddha
When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation--not resistance, not warfare, not fights.
~ Geneen Roth
In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what's happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
~ Tara Brach
The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
~ Tara Brach
A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness.
~ Dalai Lama
No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.
~ Nhat Hanh
It's probably even the case that if you stoked up some Buddhist monks with tons of testosterone, they'd become wildly competitive as to who can do the most acts of random kindness.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.
~ Alexandra Stoddard