Abhi

“He is saying not just to love one’s neighbour, but to love them as much as one loves oneself. If one cannot love oneself, one cannot love others. If one cannot believe in oneself, one cannot believe in others. Please think of the phrase as carrying that connotation. You are insisting that you cannot believe in other people, but that is because you have not managed to truly believe in yourself.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“There are many adults who treat their own weakness or misfortune, their hurt, troubled background and trauma, as a weapon and plot how they will control other people. They will try to control others by making them worry and by restricting their own words and actions.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power

“We have to get past our obstinate self-centredness and stop trying to be the centre of the world. One has to break away from ‘me’. One has to break away from one’s pampered childhood lifestyle.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to be Happy: True Contentment Is In Your Power