Quotes About Self-compassion

I feel like I appreciate and love myself a lot more than I used to. At one point, I would look in the mirror; I just hated what I saw... and finally, when I was 17, I built some confidence, and now I try to keep that confidence going.

I wake up in the morning crying, and I'll tell you why. It's because I look at myself in the mirror, and then I say, 'It'll get better.'

You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.

I think it's when you take care of yourself, you love yourself that you truly bloom and look your most beautiful.

Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom—but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by.

Perhaps you like to torture yourself by trying on some jeans from a few years ago to see if you can button them. Clothes do not exist to humiliate their owners. Please do not force garments into performing psychological tasks for which they were not designed.

The rougher the world gets around me, the sweeter I seem to myself.

Anything can happen. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.

I'm tired of feeling ashamed. About my foot.

we will continue to despise people until we have recognized, loved, and accepted what is despicable in ourselves.

When I did finally speak, I surprised myself by saying exactly what was on my mind. "You must hate me." She stared a long time at me. I did," she said slowly, "But it's mostly myself I hate." Don't," I said. And why the hell shouldn't I hate myself? Everybody else hates me.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

When we bring self-compassion into everyday life, we learn to be kind to ourselves.

Self-compassoin is a skill that anyone can (and should!) learn. Practicing it increases emotional strength and resilience, allowing a person to bounce back from difficult experiences and to overcome self-criticism.

The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that can be changed should be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others.

Sin embargo, había algo respecto a lo que era tajante: no toleraba a la gente que la hacía sentirse mal consigo misma.

All of us can carry this understanding into our private lives: Something we did can be separated from who we are and who we want to be. Our past selves need not be a blueprint for our future selves. The road to redemption starts with the understanding that who we are includes what we have done but also transcends it, and the vehicle for transcending it is self-compassion.

I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behavior. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.

I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough. That I deserved time off for all my bad behaviour. Let myself off the hook, drag myself off the rack where I am both torturer and torturee.

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

Guilt says, "If only you had done it better." Shame says, "If only you had been better.

If one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.