Quotes About Self-compassion

will not criticize or find fault with myself or others.

Quizás es que ella permite al pánico entrar tan sólo cuando no hay nadie para juzgarla.

It's all right, Con, to feel anxious. Allow yourself a couple of bad days, now and then, will you?

Remember to show yourself compassion

You can have all the sympathy in the world," she said, "just don't feel like you have to wrap your life around it.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

You interrupted the daily conversation between my ears that went something like this: What is wrong with you Julia?

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

All of us need to talk to someone who's interesting, intelligent, knows us well, and is on our side - and that's us. We're probably the most interesting person we know.

Who taught you that senseless self-chastisement? I give you the money and you take it! People who can't accept a gift have nothing to give themselves.

Taking your own reflection as a lover is, moreover, another piece of prudent economy—for after all it costs nothing.

undo : if you're bleeding undo : if you're sweating undo : if you're crying, darling undo : undo

The stress that kills or cripples most of the population comes from people being too hard on themselves when they don't live up to their own imaginings about how other people think they should behave.

Occasionally, give yourself permission to let something fall by the wayside—without feeling guilty!

Because God loves you, you can love yourself. Because God cares about you, you must care about yourself. Because God has forgiven you, you must forgive yourself. Because God has accepted you, you must learn to accept yourself.

I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

May I give you a piece of advise? ... Don't feel sorry for yourself, only arseholes do that.

Understanding, acceptance, and management (or not!) of your choosing really are the names of the game here: they are what's actually doable and also won't make you feel even shittier about yourself than perimenopause can make you feel already.

Lo que tienes que hacer es ser tan valerosa como una heroína cinematográfica, sin sucumbir a la bebida o la auto-compasión, y al final todo irá bien.

There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it.

Everyone has days when things can go wrong. That doesn't make you a bad pastry chef - that makes you human.

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

Time and time again, I have seen people whose hearts have been hardened by self-hatred and guilt find, through a simple act of asking for pardon, unsuspected strength and peace.