Quotes About Self-compassion

there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.

Some mistakes...just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you. You have the choice not to let that happen.

The sooner you get another job, babe, the better.' 'It's all of twenty-four hours since I lost the last one. Am I allowed to just be a bit miserable and floppy? You know, just for today?' 'But you've got to look at the positive side. You knew you couldn't stay at that place forever. You want to move upwards, onwards.

Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don't have to let one mistake define you

Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you." I

Be kind to yourself. You're only human.

I would think about myself for a change. I would let myself heal.

Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are.

Your advantage in forgetting is that you'll forget to write yourself off as a lost cause.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

The esteem of others is outside our control; we must attend instead to healing ourselves.

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

I make it a point to let myself have bad days on a regular basis.

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it's better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it's hard to keep going.

I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.

I'm hard on myself but I'm just hoping I can go out there and be able to make mistakes and learn from them and not have to worry about what's said and what's going to happen.

Truth is, there's never really been anything so horrible said about me that I haven't either thought of or said to myself.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

No one can ever love us quite so much as we love ourselves.

Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.

at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.