Quotes About Self-compassion

Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them.

The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!

Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you're not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

The central shift is from a focus on what you think and feel to how do you relate to what you think and feel. Specifically, the new emphasis is on learning to step back from what you are thinking, notice it, and open up to what you are experiencing. These steps keep us from doing the damage to ourselves that efforts to avoid or control our thoughts or feelings inflict, allowing us to focus our energies on taking the positive actions that can alleviate our suffering.

Confidence comes from cutting yourself some slack.

I believe in being diligent but also cut yourself some slack. It's okay in the grand scheme of life.

Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.

One of the most powerful things I'd learned since getting sober is to love and accept life on life's terms. Alcoholics have a hard time doing this; we're little id-driven crybabies, guzzling and complaining about how nothing in this life goes the way we think it should. Accepting and even embracing the world as it is can be radical, and it can have powerful, positive results.

Just do your best — in any circumstance in your life. It doesn't matter if you are sick or tired, if you always do your best there is no way you can judge yourself. And if you don't judge yourself there is no way you are going to suffer from guilt, blame, and self-punishment. By always doing your best, you will break a big spell that you have been under.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself.

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

Imagine that you love yourself just the way you are. You love your body just the way it is, and you love your emotions just the way they are. You know that you are perfect just as you are.

The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.

When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself.

The way we judge ourselves is the worst judge that ever existed.

No culpes a tus padres ni a ninguna otra persona que te haya maltratado en la vida, incluyéndote a ti mismo. Pero ya es hora de poner fin a ese maltrato. Ya es hora de que te liberes de la tiranía del Juez y de que cambies los fundamentos de tus propios acuerdos. Ya es hora de que te liberes del papel de Víctima. Tu verdadero yo

Nadie, en toda tu vida, te ha maltratado más que tú mismo.

you are only responsible for you. When you truly understand this, and refuse to take things personally, you can hardly be hurt by the careless comments or actions of others.