Kathy

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Blaming is a way to protect our hearts, to try to protect what is soft and open and tender in ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. An insightful guide to self-improvement through compassion and wisdom

“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at. Compassion isn’t some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we’re trying to live up too.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it’s important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn’t just ourselves that we’re discovering. We’re discovering the universe.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times