Quotes About Self-compassion

Etre patient avec soi-même!" ("Be patient with yourself!")

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

I never held myself as a nice person for most of my life.

You need to learn to forgive yourself first.

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit is not to hold yourself as such a precious little prize.

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

Sometimes your best way to deal with shit, she says, is to not hold yourself as such a precious little prize. My point being, Brandy says, is you can't escape the world, and you're not responsible for how you look, if you look beauticious or butt ugly. You're not responsible for how you feel or what you say or how you act or anything you do. It's all out of your hands, Brandy says.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

Zelfkennis is een groot goed, maar van zelfhaat is nog nooit iemand beter geworden.

Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can't blame yourself forever." His words soothed her,

Today, my rule is not to say anything to myself—even silently—that I wouldn't say to a friend.

nu poti iubi pe cineva mai mult decat pe tine insuti".

Non si può amare un altro più di se stessi. Chi non si salva da sé, non lo salva nessuno

You are the best company for yourself.

The worst enemy is oneself, but I do not kill, because I love him.

Do you speak to yourself in gentle tones - encouraging yourself to do better and live according to the highest and most noble standard? Or do you put yourself down and speak words of criticism and judgment over yourself?

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.

Perfection is my willingness to be less than perfect

For a moment, you won't be certain what you've done. What you've done is this: You have done the best you could. On the darkest of pathways, you have managed to stay true to the better angel of your nature.

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep going forward. If you want to fly, you'll have to give up what is weighing you down.