Quotes About Self-compassion

Accept and be proud of your flaws, after all no one is perfect and if someone truly wants to be with you, they will accept them too.

I'm kinda okay with being imperfect now because if I wasn't perfect from the start I'm sure as hell not gonna be perfect now.

I know that no one is perfect, so why am I afraid of being imperfect?

Peace of mind is found when you stop judging yourself and stop judging others. Aspire to what you were born into and don't let the limitations of your family background reduce the height of your potential.

When we're struggling, it's important to remember to be as kind and forgiving to ourselves as we would be towards someone else.

You don't always have to pretend to be strong. There's no need to prove all the time that everything is going well.

Forgive those who attack you, insult you, belittle you, or take you for granted. But most important. Forgive yourself for letting them do it.

Forgive those who insult you, attack you, belittle you or take you for granted. But more than this...Forgive yourself for allowing them to hurt you.

To be able to move on in life, one has to learn to forgive not only the person or people who have done wrong with one but also one self.

Be yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just be.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

We sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.

I polled several friends to see how much time they would grant between "a blinding, bad time" and a life that has simply become a depressive waste; the consensus was around seven years. This bespeaks the generosity of my friends -- I imagine most Americans would give themselves a year, maybe two, before they castigated themselves into some form of yanking up the bootstraps.

do not damage yourselves By attending only at the hungry altar Of regret and anger and guilt.

It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. Self-compassion is a wonderful gift to give yourself. You should never reduce the mystery and expanse of your presence to a haunted fixation with something you did or did not do.

if you could accept yourself right now, and everyone and everything around you, as perfectly okay…if you could let go of the idea that there are things in the world and parts of yourself that you just can't accept…if you could stop resisting reality and surrender to the present moment as God's perfect creation…you'd immediately be able to relax, embrace life, open your heart, and smile at God's creation rather than hold it in judgment.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. When

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There is really only one way to do this. It takes a ruthless and, at the same time, kind and self-compassionate commitment to seeing your own impulses to go for the familiar, to fall into habitual patterns and confining mind-sets, and a willingness to let go of them in the very moments when they arise.

The whole point of this book, and of MBSR, is that there is a lot that you can do to gently, lovingly, and firmly—through non-striving and non-doing, coupled with doing when taking action with awareness is called for—influence how things unfold across the life span, tilting them in the direction of greater well-being, self-compassion, and wisdom to whatever degree possible, always unknown. HOW

There is more right with you than wrong with you"—those

it is awareness that we fall into when we stop trying to get somewhere or to have a special feeling and allow ourselves to be where we are and with whatever we are feeling right now.