Quotes About Self-compassion

We've got something about ourselves we wish we could change, and we never knew that none is perfect.

Every day, I try to be my own parent - the parent I never had.

Time is short. Don't waste it beating yourself up.

Don't let the hurts, disappointments, and regrets of the past cripple your present or define your future. Forgive. You

I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Self-respect --- I honor and love myself through my beautiful actions.

We suffer not because suffering is inevitable. Suffering is inevitable when you keep trying to suppress those feelings you're afraid of. Feelings you labelled as 'bad' and believe you should have never had them in the first place. You'll never get out of this rut lest you learn to sit with the feeling no matter how horrible it feels. Give it (the feeling) the acceptance it deserves and illusion of suffering is reveled

I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.

I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'

I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.

She still held sorrows, but she was not made of them. Her life was not a tragedy.

On the deepest level, I know my body is on my side.

Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.

I am by no means an angel, and I have made many mistakes, but a woman can only turn her cheek so many times.

I've learnt to accept what has happened to my voice, I suppose, but I do wish it didn't sound quite so rough.

when you allow yourself to release the burdens caused by other people's abuses and addictions. Because these aren't your fault, it's not necessary to carry them forever. Forgive and take responsibility by choosing to learn and grow from your trials and deciding to move forward in spite of them.

Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: you put down the ugly weight of old suffering, untie yourself from the awful, and walk away from it.

We take our own goals so seriously that we forget to have fun along the way, and we forget to cut ourselves some slack.

While most of us wouldn't write ourselves a nasty letter, read it, and then feel offended, this is precisely what we do with regard to our thinking. We