Quotes About Self-compassion

I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.

In the beginning of my career I was so tough on myself, because I knew I had to cement my brand, and I wasn't very kind to myself.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

But what does it mean to look after yourself? Your eyes on your own eyes? Your eyes on your own back? Your words conjuring a self-knowing, self-forgiving self? Might you soon belong to you?

Even though no one else can give you what you missed as a child, this doesn't mean you are doomed to never receive it. There is one person who can give you what you missed on- what you so desperately need and desire. That person is you.

When we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do. When we feel shame, we feel badly about who we are. Put another way: guilty people fear punishment, shamed people fear abandonment. When we feel guilty we need to learn it's okay to make mistakes. When we feel shame we need to learn it's okay to be who we are.

It's up to me to empower myself and realize how incredibly worthy I am of healing.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

We're so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it's difficult to be authentic and trust that we'll be accepted just as we are.

If it's forgiveness you want, you'd better start by forgiving yourself.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self.

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.