The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Interpretation
Practicing kindness towards yourself leads to naturally being kind to others.
This quote by Wayne Dyer emphasizes the importance of self-kindness. When you treat yourself with compassion and understanding, it fosters a mindset of kindness that extends to how you interact with others. This creates a positive cycle, as self-kindness not only enhances your own well-being but also encourages you to reflect that kindness in your relationships with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-care and mental health.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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