Quotes About Self-compassion

To understand is to forgive, even oneself. —Alexander Chase

healing comes down to forgiving yourself—knowing you deserve to be respected, you deserve to be loved.

Self-compassion is such a basic skill, I instinctively taught it to my own children. Yet, I failed to recognize I didn't have it for myself.

It is so easy to make mistakes when you are a parent. The easiest thing in the world," Marsha said. "But you can only do what you think is best at the moment. Maybe you will be smarter the next day, or the next month, or in five years. But it doesn't help you at the moment. You need to forgive yourself.

We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don't wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.

My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.

Only remember, if you don't find what you need... in this life it's permissible to forgive oneself too.

It's okay. Calm down. Listen. We never asked you to do more than you can handle, and we're not going to. There's a difference between trying your best and trying too hard. When you want help, ask for help. And quit...apologizing for everything!

Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad." -Kyo talking to Tohru

Sanación interior lleva a búsqueda de patrones de pensamiento y comportamiento. Si no hay apoyo llega introspección y depresión. Necesitamos un amigo maduro y volver mirada a Cristo. Hablar en voz alta con Jesús, no basta sólo pensar. Eso ahuyenta la autocompasión, la autojustificación, el echar culpas y cualquier forma de hacer que las cosas dependan de mí.

Everything can be resolved, even though while learning, horrible mistakes are made. Don't condemn yourself for anything you have ever done, are doing, or may do, as you learn to play the instrument who is God himself and your own wonderful human imagination, for there is no other creative power.

The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny yourself nothing -- glue your self infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-disgust are grievous errors. Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for your self, all I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect. Deny your self nothing--give yourself infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them; you are beyond.

The truth is, the experience of forgiveness is a momentary release. We don't and can't forgive forever. Instead, we forgive only for the present moment. This is both good news and bad. The good part is that you can stop judging yourself for your inability to completely and absolutely let go of resentments once and for all. We forgive in one moment and get resentful again in the next. It is not a failure to forgive; it is just a failure to understand impermanence.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

You know when you're in yoga and you're looking around, thinking, Wow, I wish I were that flexible, or How come she can hold that pose? Well, my friend has a saying: "Stay on your own mat." Not physically, but mentally. In life, we're all made differently: our families, our frames, our personalities and talents. Appreciate how you were made, and stay on your mat. That's where happiness lies.

no punishment anyone might inflict on them could possibly be worse than the punishment they inflict on themselves by conspiring in their own diminishment.

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

But sometimes, I hate myself for hating him. Simply because he is an ordinary boy.

When someone forces you - he unkindly borrows- he does not, can not own you- Remember your body, spirit and heart are yours and only yours, and when you start to process your sexual abuse you will get it all back.

Being too hard on ourselves, and not accepting the fact that we procrastinate, just leads to more procrastination and makes it harder to change. Students

the compassionate mind is the mind that transforms.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.