Best Self Kindness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I started calling that girl back . . . The girl who loved living, the girl who danced instead of walking. The girl who had sunfl owers for eyes and fi reworks in her soul. I started playing music again, hoping she would come out. I started looking for beautiful moments to experience, so she would feel safe enough to show herself, because I knew she was in there. And she needed my kindness and my eff ort to come to the surface again.”

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Book:The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic

Source: The Power of Mess: A guide to finding joy and resilience when life feels chaotic

“True kindness is kind to both self and others. Whoever insists that kindness come at your own expense, at the exclusion of your needs, boundaries and preferences, is not kind.”

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Author:Pamela Storch

“The words you tell yourself are the worst words you'll ever hear. Henri had tamed his inner bully. Now he had nothing to fear.”

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Book:Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love

Source: Henri and the Magnificent Snort : A Children's Book about Bullying, Belonging, and Love

“The solution is to practice replacing self-criticism with self-kindness.”

Stress Self Criticism Self Kindness

Book:Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Source: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

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

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Book:Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“First and foremost, if we maintain healthy emotional boundaries and direct love and kindness inwards, we are taking care of ourselves and secondly we are giving a subliminal message to others about how we wish to be treated. People tend to subconsciously treat us how we treat ourselves.”

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Book:Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals

“Become a kinder mirror for yourself Practice liking what you see.”

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Author:Jeanette LeBlanc

“You want to lash out at the parts of your self that seem to hold you back. At moments like that, it's important to be able to sit down and speak gently within yourself, as if saying a prayer or reading a poem. Whichever part of you is unhappy, reassure it: accept your many selves, and allow them to speak both to you and to each other.”

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Book:The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

Source: The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

“The world is a better place, when YOUR world is a better place. Speak to yourself with kindness. Treat your body with love. As the light within you radiates, the world becomes brighter, and the lives of others are brightened.”

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Author:Pamela Storch

“While excellence is a wonderful ideal, perfectionism is a dysfunctional belief system. Many people openly admit that they are perfectionists, which is really an unconscious cry for help. Being a perfectionist is really stating that whatever we attempt to do will never be good enough. This is due to a mistaken belief that we are flawed and unlovable.”

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Book:Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

Source: Drug Addiction Recovery: The Mindful Way

“I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself”

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Book:Diving Into the Wreck

Source: Diving Into the Wreck

“To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it’s important to remember that art can often get messy.”

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Book:The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours

Source: The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours

“Self-love has to include a disregard for how other people might perceive me, and living as though life is in the present, rather than something that will start in earnest once certain thresholds have been passed. I sometimes have to say aloud to myself: you do not agree that life's worth should be measured in this way. Don't give the idea the authority to direct your self-criticism for not measuring up. It feels like a life's work. Repeat it until you mean it. Say it like a friend would.”

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Book:Arrangements in Blue

Source: Arrangements in Blue