Quotes About Self-compassion

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.

When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.

We're all flawed. Confident people don't hide their flaws; they laugh at them, because they don't care what you think. Those flaws work for them. They don't have to work for you.

As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.

The power broker in your life is the voice that no one ever hears. How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice is what determines the quality of your life. It is the master storyteller, and the stories we tell ourselves are our reality. For instance, how do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake that upsets you? Would you speak that way to a dear friend when they've made a mistake? If not, you have work to do. Trust me, we all have work to do.

He said, You know, whoever hurt you dies every time they look in the mirror. That is how they pay." She crossed her arms. "And one day, Maria, you will die too, but there's no reason for you to die every day.

I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

Women need to hear the words, 'It's okay if things don't go exactly the way you want them to.' Give yourself a break!

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

Quien verdaderamente abriga en sí el amor, encuentra amor para consigo.

Kendini suçlaman?n rahatlat?c? bir yan? vard?. Kendimizi suçlad???m?zda baÅŸka hiç kimsenin bizi suçlamaya hakk? olmaz. Rahip deÄŸil ancak itiraf?n kendisidir bizi ba???layan.

You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.

I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance

can tell you with at least 90 percent conviction that we are not doomed to repeat our mistakes—not if we've learned everything we can from them. Forgive your old self, and you can be pretty sure she will forgive you too.