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Self-compassion quotes for the days you are hardest on yourself
Self-compassion is a young phrase for an old practice. The word entered psychology in the 2000s, but the instruction — stop prosecuting yourself, start again from where you are — shows up in a Roman emperor’s private notebook, in a Chinese text on soft power, in a French magistrate’s essays on his own inconsistency. The vocabulary changed. The problem did not.
What the older writers add is a lack of sentiment. None of them tell you that you are enough. They tell you something more usable: that failing to live up to your standards is the ordinary condition of holding standards, that needing help is not a defect in your character, and that a mind worked without rest gets worse at the work. That is compassion offered as practical maintenance rather than as reassurance.
Nine lines follow. Reading them all in one pass is the least useful thing you can do with them. Take the one that stings slightly — the sting usually means it is addressed to you — and leave the rest.
5 source-cited lines
“Be not ashamed to be helped.”
Meditations, VII.7“Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles, but when thou hast failed, return back again.”
Meditations, V.9 (George Long translation, 1862)“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them.”
Enchiridion, 5“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Letters to Lucilius, XIII“I exist as I am, that is enough.”
Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself"
Keep one line
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