Chris Hardwick Quotes

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

What is the point of abusing yourself with guilt in the first place? If you did make a mistake and act in a hurtful way, your guilt won't reverse your blunder in some magical manner. It won't speed your learning processes so as to reduce the chance you'll make the same mistake in the future. Other people won't love and respect you more because you are feeling guilty and putting yourself down in this manner. Nor will your guilt lead to productive living. So what's the point?

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

Forgive yourself for not being the richest, the thinnest, the tallest, the one with the best hair. Forgive yourself for not being the most successful, the cutest or the one with the fastest time. Forgive yourself for not winning every round. Forgive yourself for being afraid. But don’t let yourself off the hook, never forgive yourself, for not caring or not trying.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

Self-love helps me make positive changes easily

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

Loving myself exactly where I am is the only way to get where I'm going

I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

I can live with myself.

Sometimes you're only human and you learn.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.