Self Compassion Quotes Of Mindfulness To Help You Feel Better About Yourself

Mindful self-compassion is an extremely important habit to develop, because it allows you to cultivate the ability to pick yourself back up when things happen to knock us down in life. This becomes a most important thing to living a full human experience. Staying down mentally and experiencing depression is what any good mindfulness teacher would equip you to work through. Using these great inspirational quotes will build your compassion muscle, help with low self-esteem, and assist with your deep love in difficult times.

WHAT IS SELF-COMPASSION?

Self-compassion is seeing yourself through eyes of love and empathy. It is extending the grace and kindness that you should be giving to others, because that is your true nature. You are essentially applying the first part of the Golden Rule in self-compassion. The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated. It’s hard to love others if you don’t love yourself. If you go around all day long criticizing and belittling yourself in your mind and self talk it will surely come out as you interact with others.

When you are self-compassionate in your daily mindfulness practice, you relax and stop being so hard on yourself which is the hardest battle. You start realizing that this critical voice in your head, or your normal self-talk, is coming from the place of a scared, confused inner self.

A confused and somewhat angry inner self tends to exhibit more berating, shaming, or even threats. In a case like this the person needs love, reassurance, forgiveness, and kindness. That’s what mindful self-compassion quotes can bring to confused and angry people

You will thrive when you begin to give yourself the compassion and self-love you have unconsciously with held from yourself for so long. Let today be the day you begin. You don’t need to be a Henry David Thoreau to enjoy these and benefit greatly from the positive changes you get from them. Here they are!

1. Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. — Dalai Lama

2. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at. – Pema Chodron

3. “You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.” – Mitch Albom

4. Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others. – Christopher Germer

5. Self-compassion is a way of emotionally recharging our batteries. Rather than becoming drained by helping others, self-compassion allows us to fill up our internal reserves, so that we have more to give to those who need us. – Kristin Neff

6. Self-compassion is nurturing yourself with all the kindness and love you would shower on someone you cherish. – Debra Reble, PhD

7. Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves amid shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy. – Brene Brown

8. You’re already stuck with yourself for a lifetime. Why not improve this relationship? – Vironika Tugaleva

9. 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

10. Healing takes self-compassion. – Juansen Dizon

11. Unlike self-criticism, which asks if you’re good enough, self-compassion asks, what’s good for you? – Kristin Neff

12. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield

13. Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you—with your particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities. – Kristin Neff

14. A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. – Christopher Germer

15. You, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha

16. So why is self-compassion a more effective motivator than self-criticism? Because its driving force is love, not fear. – Kristin Neff

17. Self-compassion–being supportive and kind to yourself, especially in stress and failure–is associated with more motivation and better self-control. – Kelly McGonigal

18. Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes

19. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. – Maya Angelou

20. You’ve been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise Hay

21. To be self-compassionate is not to be self-indulgent or self-centered. A major component of self-compassion is to be kind to yourself. Treat yourself with love, care, and dignity, and make your well-being a priority. With self-compassion, we still hold ourselves accountable professionally and personally, but there are no toxic emotions inflicted upon and towards ourselves. – Christopher Dines

22. Self-compassion: not judging yourself or allowing others to judge you, not blaming yourself, getting to know and accepting yourself, forgiving yourself, loving yourself, helping yourself overcome insecurities, respecting yourself, and protecting yourself. – Unknown

23. One thing is for sure–you will make mistakes. Learn to learn from them, learn to forgive yourself, and learn to laugh when everything falls apart because, sometimes, it will. – Vironika Tugaleva

24. Perhaps, we should love ourselves so fiercely, that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done. – Rudy Francisco

25. If you are continually judging and criticizing yourself while trying to be kind to others, you are drawing artificial boundaries and distinctions that only lead to feelings of separation and isolation. – Kristin Neff

26. Practice self-compassion. Talk to and BE your own best, kind, compassionate, caring friend. – Kristin Neff

27. Taking time to relax every day, spending quality time with friends, and practicing mindfulness are some of the tried and tested ways of developing self-compassion. – Dr. Prem Jagyasi

28. We develop self-compassion when we are present with the inner child within us when we learn about the child and understand the child. – Teal Swan

29. Self-compassion is an inoculation for the mind, protecting it from potential harm. The emotional disease cannot contaminate the minds of those who are wise enough to love and accept themselves. – Miya Yamanouchi

30. When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives. – Kristin Neff

31. Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. – Pema Chodran

32. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. – Maya Angelou

Conclusion:

Self-compassion is the developed ability to be compassionate to ourselves whenever we face failure or suffer from any sort of an fall or setback in life. For most people this attained skill doesn’t come naturally, and we have to apply an effort to develop it. The positive this is that the effort isn’t as difficult as most of us would be led to believe. 

Truthfully, all we need to do is simply relax, practice mindfulness meditation, and spend time in the company of loved ones, whether they be friends or family. By relaxing and practicing mindfulness meditation you will rid yourself of the toxic thoughts and self-talk that might be haunting you.

In addition, since your loved ones accept you for who you are, they will also always accept you for what you are. That’s why spending time with them is the best when it comes to accepting your own faults.

As you have seen, these quotes of mindfulness self-compassion prepares your mind and subconscious to spend more quality time with your loved ones. That in turn will catapult you into the development of a permanent habit of naturally involving self love and empathetic compassion to yourself almost all the time.