If you have the 2015 Self Love Planner then you’ll know that this month is all about compassion and cultivating that toward yourself. Here are some quotes I want to share with you. Really read them and allow them to sink in. Allow yourself to identify with them instead of pushing it away when it starts feeling uncomfortable.
What quote really makes you think?
“Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
“Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.” ― Mark Victor Hansen
“Today I began to criticize 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.
“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, 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 Dine
“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”— Rudy Francisco
“You can’t hate yourself happy, You can’t criticize yourself thin, You can’t shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.”― Jessica Ortner
“Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? Anything else is not love. It is idealization. And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.” ― Vironika Tugaleva
“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” ― Kristen Neff
“Self-compassion is approaching ourselves, our inner experience with spaciousness, with the quality of allowing which has a quality of gentleness. Instead of our usual tendency to want to get over something, to fix it, to make it go away, the path of compassion is totally different. Compassion allows.” ― Robert Gonzales
My Favorite: “You can have compassion for yourself-which is not self-pity. You’re simply recognizing that ‘this is tough, this hurts,’ and bringing the same warmhearted wish for suffering to lessen or end that you would bring to any dear friend grappling with the same pain, upset, or challenges as you.” ― Rich Hanson
The reward of life being compassionate is not written in any book in detail, but that can be experienced when we try to put that action into our daily practical life, then we can watch smiling faces which will be a cooling tonic of our tensed life. Then another reward is the mysterious blessings pouring into our posterity, they will be blessed in many ways, and watching that will be creating tears of joy.