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Never define yourself by your relationship status, your income, or your looks. It’s your generosity, kindness, and compassion that counts.

The world isn’t filled with ‘haters’ and ‘toxic people.’ It’s filled with people who are hurting and trying, ineffectively, to give themselves some relief. So distance yourself if you must, but try to do it with empathy, not judgment. The only cure for ‘haters’ is love, so try to show them more kindness than they showed you. This is how we can slowly make the world a more loving place.

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

The truth is we’re all a little bit broken. We must learn to love the broken pieces of ourselves—be gentle and empathetic with ourselves, and others.

The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor’s shoulder is to pat him on the back.

Sometimes, what a person needs is not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

Stop beating yourself up.  You are a work in progress; which means you get there a little at a time, not all at once.

The heart is like a garden: it can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Love is saying, ‘I feel differently’ instead of ‘you’re wrong.’

When you live on a round planet, there’s no choosing sides.