self-compassionate behavior Quotes

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Self-love helps me make positive changes easily

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

The individual is taught that there is nothing that he as a total person is to feel ashamed of or self-hating for.

What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

One should not be too difficult. An artist should not treat himself like an enemy.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.

When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.