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“Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means 'to suffer with,' which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect.”

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“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.”

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“如果我必須覺得比你強，才能自我感覺良好，那麼，我又能把你或自己看得多清楚呢？”

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“If you had control over your maladaptive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, you wouldn’t still have them.”

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“And we don’t just see ourselves as “better,” we also see others as “worse.” Psychologists use the term “downward social comparison” to describe our tendency to see others in a negative light so that we can feel superior by contrast.”

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“The key to self-compassion is not to deny suffering, but to recognize that it’s perfectly normal. There isn’t anything wrong with the imperfection of life as long as we don’t expect it to be other than it is.”

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“Happiness is not dependent on circumstances being exactly as we want them to be, or on ourselves being exactly as we’d like to be. Rather, happiness stems from loving ourselves and our lives exactly as they are, knowing that joy and pain, strength and weakness, glory and failure are all essential to the full human experience.”

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“Our successes and failures come and go—they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness. They are merely part of the process of being alive. Our minds may try to convince us otherwise, but our hearts know that our true value lies in the core experience of being a conscious being who feels and perceives.”

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