Quotes about Self-compassion

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you've also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

How much space are you giving to guilt, to shame, to regret, to being against yourself? Whatever it is, it's too much. You need that space for the good things God has for you that will move you toward your destiny. If you're giving space to guilt, you will not have the confidence you need to move forward, which will cause you to fail again. It's a negative cycle. The only way to break the cycle is to

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

You need time for the grief to heal, for the memories to fade in sharpness, time to adjust your expectation for the future. Be gentle with yourself, you'll make it.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have.

You aren't a better person for feeling guilty or bad about yourself, just a sadder one.

Become one of your own die-hard fans, look at yourself from the outside, where all your self doubts can't crawl all over you, and behold what shines through.

It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too —pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place