Top 100 Self-Compassion Quotes of All Time

Explore a collection of self-compassion quotes that emphasize the importance of treating ourselves with the same kindness and understanding that we extend to others. These quotes inspire us to embrace our imperfections and practice self-love on our journey to personal growth.

"This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself. May I give myself the compassion I need."

"I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now."

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

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

"I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say 'This is who I am.'."

"The only person who can pull me down is myself and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

"If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not capable of developing compassion for others."

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. "

"Whatever you do, be gentle with yourself."

"I just want everyone to remember if you can love me. You can love yourself. Every single day. If you can love my big black ass at this tiny, tiny little desk, you can love yourself."

"Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."

"Loving Yourself is Healing the World!"

"You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. "

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it."

"What you resist, persists."

"All the happiness, self-confidence, and support you’re seeking is already within you."

"Every aspect of ourselves has a gift. Every emotion and every trait we possess helps show us the way to enlightenment, to oneness."

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

"To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."

"If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self."

"So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer."

"You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful."

"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. "

"I am patient with the process of becoming who I am."

"I forgive myself and accept my flaws."

"Everyone makes mistakes. I accept and forgive myself for mine."

"I am gentle and loving with myself as I change and grow."

"I’m proud of myself for trying. Lots of people don’t even try."

"I’m doing my best and that is enough."

"Today I will show up for me."

"I am my own superhero."

"I am releasing self-judgement and accepting self-love."

"Let’s just take things one step at a time."

"My opinion of myself is the only one that matters."

"The past is the past. The future is mine to make."

"My uniqueness is what makes me special."

"I love and accept myself today."

"I give my body the care it needs."

"I’m kind to myself and to the world around me."

"I’m healing myself with compassion."

"I talk to myself with love."

"I have come this far, and I can keep going."

"I am trying to love myself a little more everyday."

"I’m evolving every day."

"I am working on loving myself."

"Today I will not stress over things I cannot control."

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

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

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

"This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need."

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

"It is a beautiful experience being with ourselves at a level of complete acceptance. When that begins to happen, when you give up resistance and needing to be perfect, a peace will come over you as you have never known."

"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

"Talk to yourself as you would someone you love."

"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."

"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."

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

"Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity."

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

"Your inner child is waiting for a genuine, heartfelt apology."

"Drop the people who do not value you, respect you. Life has infinite horizons. Accept yourself, love yourself, and move forward."

"Leaning on others is a beautiful act of self-compassion."

"We can weather disappointment in ourselves better if we act kindly towards ourselves."

"Pause-itivity: The power of the pause."

"Nurturing your self compassion is anti-oppression work within yourself."

"When confused or overwhelmed, choose YOU."

"You know, no one likes having bad memories....but maybe it's better to remember the bad things and learn from them than to go all denial crazy trying to forget."

"We like to imagine that it's possible for life to be eternal summer and that we have uniquely failed to achieve that for ourselves."

"The secret to peace is right under our noses. Slow down, love yourself, sloth and smell the roses!"

"Circumstances vary; self-kindness does not. It is a constant."

"Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow "I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore."

"Now I see that the heartbreak was only growing pains."

"I did my best, and God did the rest."

"It's not too late. Some of your very best memories haven't even happened yet."

"True emotional understanding has nothing to do with cheap sentimental pity."

"Self-compassion is as important as compassion for other beings."

"You can’t change the outside without changing the inside."

"If you are someone who tends to ruminate, or who suffers from anxiety and depression, it's important that you don't judge yourself for this way of being."

"Stop beating yourself up for beating yourself up."

"...trust in what you know, be patient with yourself, and take things one step at a time."

"... you always seem to think you have to change, you think you have to improve yourself, to be like everyone else, to fit in, but can't you see you're perfect just the way you are?"

"Sick and weak are not useful entries in the dictionary of self-understanding."

"You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity."

"Just lying with my wondering thoughts and Creating another beautiful world with my imagination ,where there is no boundaries, and you can be yourself , without any fear."

"The implicit is awakening in search of healing rather than trying to harm us."

"My wife used to say that her idea of hell would be marrying Ghandi," Ben said ... "Think about it: Ghandi was always the good one. Everyone else looked so rude and loud and self-centered by comparison."

"As one who will continue to practice radical inclusiveness as I fail again and again, I can say it is quite a relief to embrace the limitations of being human."

"If we can see the scientific viewpoint as one way of perceiving rather than as offering the only or superior truth, then we can learn from these discoveries without shifting into a more mechanical viewpoint ourselves."

"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."

"Once we let go of our low self-esteem identity, the mind will have to start all over again, collecting new information about us and building a new identity."

"Each moment of self-honesty builds intimacy, trust, and compassion. The more you look, the more you’ll love."

"People who have low self-esteem might not even know they have low self-esteem."

"Words can’t harm you when they don’t mean anything to you."

"Nothingness is the most peaceful state of mind. There’s no unworthiness or inferiority. There’s only pure love."

"The power of self-kindness can help us to heal our chronic shame and self-loathing. In a world that is often mean-spirited and cruel, a daily practice of kindness and warm-heartedness can make all the difference."

"Our reaction to self-criticism is more important than the self-criticism itself. Paying attention to our reactions is very important because the only thing we have control over is how we react."