Quotes About Self-compassion

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach yourself with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors . . .

All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect

Berating ourselves for our flaws and our weakness only serves to undermine our strength to become. Repenting from our sin is essential. Beating ourselves up for sinning is no longer an option.

She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings.

Many people who find it hard to be alone blame or despise themselves (or know themselves so little they do not realise that they can't be alone but fill their lives with work, people, noise, booze or drugs).

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the sea, a fuck with a soldier who never knew your name. Tenderness toward the unknown and anonymous, which was tenderness to the self.

Self-love knows no impediment.

And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself.

For many years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

The more I have deep love and compassion for my earth and my fellows, the more love and compassion I have for myself, and vice versa.

It's OK to love your body the way it is.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

I love who I am and all that I do.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

Get in and be honest about where you are. Love yourself both for where you are and for what you want to change, and don't be so concerned with what the other guy is thinking about you. It will change tomorrow anyway.

Turn down the volume of your negative inner voice and create a nurturing inner voice to take it's place. When you make a mistake, forgive yourself, learn from it, and move on instead of obsessing about it. Equally important, don't allow anyone else to dwell on your mistakes or shortcomings or to expect perfection from you.

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

Acceptance may be seen as the first step in healing, though when there is true acceptance, this is not really a step. Acceptance is there whether you step forward, backward or remain where you are. Also when acceptance is total there is no need of any further step. Acceptance will suffice.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means.