Quotes About Self-compassion

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

To practice nonviolence, first of all we must learn to deal peacefully with ourselves.

If you can't accept your body and your mind, you can't be a home for yourself. Many young people don't accept who they are, and yet they want to be a home for someone else. But how can they be if they're not yet a home for themselves?

Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.

Home is inside us. Going home requires only sitting down and being with yourself, accepting the situation as it is. Yes, it might be a mess in there, but we accept it because we know we have left home for a long time. So now we're home. With our in-breath and our out-breath, our mind- ful breathing, we begin to tidy up our homes.

Another time the Buddha recounted a story which made me suddenly see the supreme importance of practicing mindfulness of one's own self--that is, to protect and care for one's self, not being preoccupied about the way others look after themselves, a habit of mind which gives rise to resentment and anxiety.

Maintain your health. Be joyful. Do not force yourself to do things you cannot do."2

I feel like I want to be in a world and in a community where we can be kinder to one another, because that is never going to hurt... And that should start with myself.

Stress eating is huge - I did a lot during lockdown, and I think that's half the battle. We give ourselves such a hard time, our internal voice is so aggressive and we need to start being kinder to ourselves.

We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

Practice acceptance on yourself so you can be kinder with your child. Practice nonjudgmental awareness of your life so you can save your loved ones from the cruelty of your own impossible standards and your hard-hearted disappointment. Practice greater faith and lesser blame. Take this blink of time when you are still stumbling at the gate, still awkward at the tasks, to turn down the sound and tumble freely in a state of grace. Life

It's not so bad to find yourself free of the effort to overcome your life. It's not so bad.

You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.

One thing I've learned is that the harder your life gets, the gentler you have to be with yourself when you finally get some downtime, or you can't be strong when you need to be.

One thing I've learned is that the harder your life gets, the gentler you have to be with yourself when you finally get some downtime, or you can't be strong when you need to be.

The point is, we all come to forks in the road, and we all make our choices and live with them, for good or ill..[spoilers left out]...You came to a fork in the road, and you made the best choice you could at the time, under the circumstances you were faced with and using the information you had. You have nothing to beat yourself up over. -Tony Marino

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, "What was I thinking," breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, "What was I learning?

View life with kindness and insight. Don't beat yourself up for things that happened in the past. Though some past situations may make you wonder why you did the things you did, stop to breathe and ask the better question: 'What did I learn?

I let my voice trail off, unable to explain that the biggest grudge I held was against my younger self, the girl I'd been trying to bury for almost a decade.

No one could possibly judge you more cruelly than you do yourself.

If I beat myself up about the bad stuff I did, I'm ignoring that I was strong enough to stop being that person. I think what I'm doing with my life now is a lot more important than what I did when I was a stupid kid.

chapter 21 teaches us to be less toxic toward ourselves.

Whatever messed up belief you have pulled from your childhood that you blame yourself for has no relevance in your life now. Punishing yourself for something you THINK you did in your past is useless. Here