Quotes About Self-compassion

Hush, child. Don't be so hard on yourself. Everyone gets to start over again. This America, hon. One dream dies, you get another.

The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they love?

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. It's possible to treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

People often mistake tenderheartedness for indulgence, as if being kind to themselves leads to lethargy—sitting around the house all day eating bonbons and wearing muumuus and pink rollers. This is simply not true. I often hear a variation on this statement: "If I'm not intolerant of my shortcomings, how can I ever expect to change them?" And the answer is, By doing the opposite of what you think you need to do to change. By being kind to yourself.

If you think that your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

For me, I know that people always expect me to be perfect, so when I'm not perfect, it's really frustrating. I'm really hard on myself and want things to work out right away.

I think we're much harder on ourselves than other people are. This is not a unique situation here... But I never liked the 'Celtic Tiger' as a phrase.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.

It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer my own enemy. Depression is the enemy. The monster lives at my gate. My hope is that, with sufficient effort and luck, I can keep it there.

But try to avoid being too hard on yourself or identifying too many items you need to get to work on,

Never ever get mad at yourself if you miss a ball, lose a point, or double fault.

Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don't feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells every day, aging. After all that, what is left to feel humiliated? Very little indeed.

Recognizing that backsliding is natural, he committed himself to repeated practice. Recognizing that some virtues, such as humility and order, were particularly hard for him to achieve, he decided to lower his standards and cut himself some slack. The result was a program that was explicit, realistic, and, as he looked back on it, seemingly effective.

Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

And just like that every horrible thought receded into the background. Maybe, just maybe, she wasn't damaged goods after all. Maybe she was okay - someone worth caring for. Someone worth loving, even.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.

Actually, I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself. 2:23:11 is a very good time - a very good time for a woman that is.