Quotes About Self-compassion

So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won't be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.

You can't go back and change what happened, so why not just forgive yourself and try to make the best of things? Aren't you as deserving of forgiveness as anyone else?

Learn to tolerate your own different-ness from other people and learn to navigate your own waters

Like Pi, we all have tigers within us. Lil demons which are a part of us. If you can't run away from them, welcome them, feed them and listen to what they will have to say. There is really not a whole lot to be afraid of.

Self-compassion begins by replacing searing judgment with basic kindness.

While self-flagellation seems motivating—especially to Americans, whose mental models of motivation often begin with howling, red-faced, vein-popping football coaches—it often produces helplessness. Self-compassion, by contrast, prompts people to confront their difficulties head-on and take responsibility for them, researchers have found.

Trying to change how we actually feel by ordering ourselves to do so is a strategy that goes nowhere, fast.

Solo te necesitan a ti: auténtico, defectuoso y plenamente presente. Si eres uno de esos padres, nuestro mensaje es que no seas tan duro contigo mismo.

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

Sometimes we imprison ourselves with a narrative of self-punishment.

Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends.

But too often people feel pressured to forgive and then end up believing that something's wrong with them if they can't quite get there—that they aren't enlightened enough or strong enough or compassionate enough. So what I say is this: You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them.

Jack Kornfield said: "A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance." In therapy we aim for self-compassion (Am I human?) versus self-esteem (a judgment: Am I good or bad?).

How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?" Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence?

In therapy we aim for self-compassion (Am I human?) versus self-esteem (a judgment: Am I good or bad?).

Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future.

If you experience a health challenge, Life is inviting you to love yourself. In other words, no matter what your problem is, there is only one answer: loving yourself.

The power to achieve your best health goes beyond your immune system. It all starts with a little-known secret: loving yourself.

Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don't work.

If we make a conscious decision not to be victims of the past and go about creating new lives for ourselves, we are supported by this Power within, and new, happier experiences begin to unfold.

Life doesn't judge us, but we judge ourselves. Life doesn't criticize us, but we criticize ourselves. Life doesn't abandon us, but we often abandon ourselves.

loving the self begins with never, ever criticizing ourselves for anything.

Later I learned to love and approve of all of me, even those qualities I thought were "not good enough." That was when I really began to make progress.

We also treat ourselves the way our parents treated us. We scold and punish ourselves in the same way. You can almost hear the words when you listen. We also love and encourage ourselves in the same way, if we were loved and encouraged as children. "You never do anything right." "It's all your fault." How often have you said this to yourself? "You are wonderful." "I love you." How often do you tell yourself this?