Quotes About Self-compassion

If you are mindful as emotional storms occur, perhaps you will see in yourself an unwillingness to accept things as they already are, whether you like them or not. Perhaps that part of you that does see this has, in one way or another, already come to terms with what has happened or with your situation. Perhaps, at the same time, it recognizes that your feelings still need to play themselves out, that they are not ready to accept the situation or to calm down, and that this too is all right.

When you learn to give yourself a break and feel okay about not being able to live up to impossible standards, then you can begin to get the worry-free rest your mind and body so badly need.

We all have regrets from past experiences. You've got to learn to forgive yourself, to put one foot in front of the other and go forward.

Sometimes we feel like the world is against us, but the only person against us is ourselves, because we allow the words and actions of others to change our moods, feelings and the way we live our lives.

Perfection doesn't exist. But there is such thing as being perfectly imperfect.

Getting to know and actually loving yourself is vital to your journey in life.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Nobody's perfect, we all make mistakes. Forgive yourself, learn the lesson and move on. Something better is just around the corner.

pour la première fois, ma tristesse n'était plus considérée comme une faute punissable

smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that. Haruki Murakami

You're not broken or weak if you're afraid. You're human.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.