Self Compassion Quotes

Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Make every picture a #loveselfie and fill every moment with soul.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Let go of rejections and focus on self-reflection. For it is within that you will find the light you seek.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Talk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just as you are.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Your inner critic is simply a part of you that needs more self-love.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Sometimes the ultimate act of self-compassion is turning off your phone and looking someone in the eye.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Relax your heart and let go into the infinite ocean of love within you.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The love you share with yourself pays immediate and lifelong dividends of peace.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Speak to yourself with compassion on the inside and you will radiate peace on the outside.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Peak performance happens when we feel loved and supported from within.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Practice self-compassion and experience the priceless feeling of emotional safety.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Defeat the demons of self-doubt and self-loathing by being your own hero/heroine of self-compassion.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.

~ Nikki Rowe

If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The important thing is for me to feel love towards my fellow human beings—and sometimes, that has to be at a distance.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Loving yourself isn't just about celebrating your accomplishments and nurturing your talents. Those things are nice, sure. But that's not how we know others love us. We know others love us when they see us with our face on the ground, crying and weak, feeling like we've got nothing to offer the world—and they smile, and they reach out, and they love us anyway. Loving yourself is what you do when you fail, when you don't know, when you screw up, when you forget, when you lose everything. Loving yourself is what you do when you can't approve of what you've done. Loving yourself is what you do when you're not sure if it's going to get better. Loving yourself is what you must do in those moments when you can't like yourself. Real love is when you reach out for no good reason at all, except to love.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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

Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Before label yourself and before you decide that there is something irreparably wrong with your thoughts or emotions, ask yourself: “Do I have a caring, unconditionally loving best friend in myself?” If the answer is “No,” then you will not find the solution to your suffering until you address this serious, life-threatening absence of self-compassion. Self-love is not a dinner mint. Self-love matters. Self-love saves lives.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

~ Nikki Rowe

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

No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you can’t stand him. But if you try to understand your feelings of dislike with mindfulness and compassion, being sure not to forget self-compassion, you create the possibility for change.

~ Sharon Salzberg

It's easier said than done but when you feel yourself out of balance within, stop in that present moment and catch your breathe. Remind yourself of 5 things, that help you feel most alive and re-centre your own energy frequency so you can continue living out of your intentions not the world's distractions.

~ Nikki Rowe

Once we are honest about our feelings, we can invite ourselves to consider alternative modes of viewing our pain and can see that releasing our grip on anger and resentment can actually be an act of self-compassion.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?

~ Nikki Rowe

Today I began to criticise myself and look at myself with a judgmental eye... but then instead of going all out in that direction, I stopped and I began to understand me. And then I began to be patient with me. And then I began to feel a softness in the middle of my chest. So then I concluded that I can understand and be patient with me, just like how I am always understanding and being patient with everyone else. Why? Because I deserve that, and more.

~ C. Joybell C.

There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels, the suits, the makeup, the mask. Then, we feel more awkward than confident, so we drink away our anxieties. That doesn’t make us look any sexier – it just makes us stop caring about how we look.Everyone is beautiful. Everyone is sexy. Everyone is strong. It’s lunacy. We’re all running around trying to become something that we already are.You know what’s really sexy? A person who’s 100% comfortable with themselves. And you know what’s really funny? It is just as time consuming and difficult to learn to accept yourself as it is to pretend to be someone else. The only difference is – with self acceptance, one day, it’s not hard anymore. One day, you feel like your sexiest, strongest self just rolling out of bed in the morning.You’re either going to spend the little time you have in your life on trying to know yourself or trying to hide yourself. The choice is yours. You can’t do both.And you know what’s really amazing about choosing self-love? You’ll be setting an example for all the people around you and all the kids of the coming generation. You’ll be part of a revolution to take back the precious moments of our lives out of the hands of shame-inducing advertisers and back into the hands and hearts of real people like you, like me, like all of us.I know you’ve dreamt about changing the world. So this is your chance. Learn to love yourself, accept yourself, and unleash your strongest, sexiest self. It’s in there. You just have to believe it.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of motivation - that is a signal from you to you. That is a sure sign that something in your mind or in your life is making you sick, and you must attend to that signal. But what do most people do? They hate their depressed feelings. They think Why me? They push them down. They take a pill. And so, the feelings return again and again, knocking at your door with a message while you turn up all the noise in your cave, refusing to hear the knocks. Madness. Open the door. Invite in depression. Invite anxiety. Invite self-hatred. Invite shame. Hear their message. Give them a hug. Accept their tirades as exaggerated mistruths typical of any upset person. Love your darkness and you shall know your light.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?

~ Vironika Tugaleva

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

~ Tara Brach

Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

To be a better person, spend less time filling out your personal scorecard and more time being kind . . . to you.

~ Philip Chard

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've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

~ Louise L. Hay

Be nice to yourself... It's hard to be happy when someone is mean to you all the time.

~ Christine Arylo