Updated on August 20, 2024
Self-compassion is not a feeling; it is a motivation. A motivation to define, acknowledge, and engage with the source of one’s pain and suffering. It is a call to actively alleviate oneself from that pain.
It is a way of engaging in change. A way of letting your pain go. Self-compassion is learning how to be gentle, kind, and loving to yourself.
These famous self-compassion quotes will not only inspire but also help you become a lot more gentle with yourself.
1. “Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.”
– Shannon L. Alder
2. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
– Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life
3. “If you do not respect your wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”
– Vironika Tugaleva
4. “Your inner child is waiting for a genuine, heartfelt apology.”
– Yong Kang Chan, Parent Yourself Again: Love Yourself The Way You Have Always Wanted To Be Loved
5. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”
– Jack Kornfield
6. “Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.”
– Jack Kornfield
7. “Lack of forgiveness causes most of our self-sabotaging behavior.”
– Mark Victor Hansen
8. “Your pain needs to be recognized and acknowledged. It needs to be acknowledged and then released. Avoiding pain is the same as denying it.”
– Yong Kang Chan, Parent Yourself Again
9. “Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins ‘ME TIME’ into your daily routine. YES THERE ARE enough hours in the day. NO EXCUSES.”
– Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self – A practical guide for women
10. “True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity.”
– Alice Miller, For Your Good: Hidden Cruelty In Child Bearing and The Roots Of Violence
11. “For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.”
– Alice Miller
12. “Drop the people who do not value you, respect you. Life has infinite horizons. Accept yourself, love yourself, and move forward.”
– Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living With Positivity
13. “It’s not too late. Some of your very best memories haven’t even happened yet.”
– Eleanor Brown
14. “Self-love will be the immunity from every infectious community that makes you sick of being who you are.”
– Curtis Tyrone Jones
15. “As you embark on this journey, I invite you to remember these words: slow, quiet, gentle. You are already worthy of love and belonging. This is not a journey of worthiness, but a journey of care. Because you must know, dear heart, that you are worthy of care, whether your house is immaculate or a mess.”
– K.C Davis, LPC
16. “I wanted it to be true so much it was true. Sometimes in life, you have to let your heart and bones off the hook of yourself.”
– Susie Boyt, Loved and Missed
17. “I did my best, and God did the rest.”
– Hattie McDaniel
18. Empathy and compassion require a good understanding of self and other boundaries, acute awareness of the inherent worth, value, and uniqueness of the other person, and understanding of the shared humanity between oneself and the recipient of one’s concern and care.”
– Adam Gerace
19. “Self-compassion is as important as compassion for other beings.”
– Kathirasan K
20. “Sometimes it’s about working with your bad parts, not fixing them.”
– Leah Thomas
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