Quotes are a powerful companion on healing journeys. They can be used as inspiration, affirmations during trauma-informed yoga practices, or as a way to gently remind yourself that you and your healing matter.
I welcome you to explore this list of 25 self compassion quotes for trauma healing journeys to restore the love you’re so worthy of giving – the love to yourself.
25 Self Compassion Quotes
- “No one can take away your right to start again.”
– Unknown - “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow.”
– Eleanor Brownn - “It’s okay to not be okay, as long as you are not giving up.”
– Karen Salmansohn - “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
– Steve Maraboli - “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.”
– Yoko Ono - “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
– Rumi - “Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.”
– Katie Reed - “You are worthy of the same compassion that you extend to others.”
– Unknown - “Inhale love, exhale self-judgment.”
– Unknown - “Breathe. You’re strong enough to handle your challenges, wise enough to find solutions, and capable enough to do whatever needs to be done.”
– Lori Deschene - “You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender.”
– John Mark Green - “Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.”
– Brené Brown - You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.”
– Sophia Bush - “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”
– Brené Brown - “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha - “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.”
– Christopher Germer - “You are not a burden. You have a right to take up space.”
– Unknown - “Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.”
– Brené Brown - “Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars.” — Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
- “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”
– Maya Angelou - “And here you are, living despite it all.”
– Rupi Kaur - “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brené Brown - “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer - “Self-compassion is a way of relating to ourselves kindly, embracing ourselves as we are.”
– Kristin Neff - “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
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I invite you to take time on your self compassion journey and to know that it’s a practice that compounds. The first time you give yourself compassion may feel awkward, or forced, but it becomes easier the more you practice.
You are worthy of self compassion, love, and acceptance on your healing journey. Take good care, and I welcome you to join me for trauma-informed yoga classes below to offer yourself more self compassion after sexual trauma.
