Quotes About Self-compassion

Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.

IMAGINE RECLAIMING ALL THE ENERGY that could be available to us but isn't because we scatter it, squandering it on endlessly regretting the past, worrying about the future, berating ourselves, blaming others, checking Facebook yet again, throwing ourselves into serial snacking, workaholism, recreational shopping, recreational drugs.

We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.

I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha)

Stop judging your life only by the failures.

I am hard on myself. But isn't it better to be honest about these things before someone else can use them against you? Before someone else can break your heart? Isn't it better to break it yourself?

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

I found the secret to life: I'm ok when everything is not ok.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

I accept now that the point of life is not to reach perfection but to befriend the fact that human beings are works in progress.

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

Stop judging yourself. Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors. Embrace mistakes as discoveries and use them to move forward.

So yes, you can try what worked for your friend, but don't beat yourself up if your friend's answer doesn't change you in the same way.

she doesn't go into a shame spiral anymore.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

I realised no one else was going to care about me so I started to be nice to myself.

To teach their children how to show themselves grace in the face of a challenge, I coach parents to model self-compassion in the face of everyday setbacks.

He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.