self-compassionate Quotes

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

I don't even remember why I called myself an idiot. I can be very harshly critical of myself. It depends on my mood, and obviously it depends on where I am in my life. Yes, embracing myself - I'm working on that.

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to 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.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

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

Love yourself - Do it now! Don't wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

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

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.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

All pity is self-pity.

There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.

I had a friend who said, "You don't have an internal critic. You have an internal sadist."

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

No one is going to beat the crap out of me more than me.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.