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.
He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.
In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious.
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