Quotes About Self-compassion

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and fell on your face and got up and tried again. At what age are you suddenly expected to know everything and never make any more mistakes? If you can love and respect yourself in failure, worlds of adventure and new experiences will open up before you, and your fears will vanish.

FORD: That's right - and you said, when you've done something unforgiveable, forgive yourself, and that's what I've done, and it's done.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

Nothing needs to be perfect to be good, and no one should need to feel perfect to feel right

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

If we can't stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can't move forward.

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.

Sometimes all you need to do is just hold on to yourself! Look at the stars in the sky, listen to the sweet murmurings of the breeze, inhale the fragrance of the night, and you will feel fine!

Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.

When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.

But it's about health, not forcing my body to be something it's not meant to be.

Stop shoulding on yourself

That being said, I am not one to feel sorry for myself. I believe it is healthy to honor one's feelings and do the best we can to learn and grow from them moving forward.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

You 50 year old one-breasted bag of meat. Just hang it up and be grateful some of your friends are still living.

The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.