When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.
Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again.
If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.
Be thankful for what you have. Your life, no matter how bad you think it is, is someone else’s fairy tale.
Make yourself so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.
Your thoughts are incredibly powerful. Choose yours wisely.
Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
The purpose of yoga is to put a smile on your face in spite of all the stress, tension, or situations that you are put through in your day-to-day life.
Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
Rest and play are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise.
How can we embrace rest and play if we’ve tied our self-worth to what we produce?
Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.