self-compassion exercises Quotes

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.

The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.

Your only shame is to have shame.

There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.

To love others you must first love yourself.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

We're all always acting. You need to be able to sit in silence and not beat up on yourself. It's hard to say to yourself, 'You are human. Welcome to the human race.'

As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.

I need you to love me, I don't like me, either, if that helps.

In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.