Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.
Bryant McGill
Top Self Care Quotes
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Charles Bukowski
Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.
Alison Malee
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamot
Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.
Christine Morgan
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Maya Angelou
To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.
Michelle Obama
Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.
William Shakespeare
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Inspirational Self Care Quotes
If you feel “”burnout”” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.
Dalai Lama
Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Dr. Seuss
How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.
Shel Silverstein
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren
By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty.
Ali Washington
Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.
Amy Ippoliti
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.
Anna Taylor
Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it.
Avina Celeste
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell Hooks
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Brene Brown
The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.
Bryant McGillns
It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.
Charles F. Glassman
The only person you shouldn’t be able to live without is you.
Chris McGeown
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear.
Confucius
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.
Diane Von Furstenberg
When you can’t find your purpose in a day, make it to look after yourself.
Dodie Clark
Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
Edward Stanley
Though we all make mistakes, don’t handicap yourself in difficult tasks; self-sabotage is not a strategy. Sometimes all you need to do is protect yourself from your own self.
Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum
Self-care has become a new priority – the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.
Frances Ryan
Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.
Gina Greenlee
Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.
Golda Poretsky
Harmony begins within. If we are to influence the world around us, even in minor ways, the real work begins inside and emanates outwards.
Gudjon Bergmann
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.
Imani Shola
The value of self-care and self-love is often underestimated. It starts with you. You can’t give what you don’t have.
Izey Victoria Odiase
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
Self care is not a waste of time. Self care makes your use of time more sustainable.
Jackie Viramontez
When the body forces you to STOP it’s saying, hey buddy, you’ve gone too far.
Jacqueline Escolme
Don’t take your health for granted. Don’t take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.
Jada Pinkett Smith
The challenge is not to be perfect — it is to be whole.
Jane Fonda
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
There is enough time for self-care. There is not enough time to make up for the life you’ll miss by not filling yourself up.
Jennifer Williamson
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.
Jill Bolte Taylor
Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You – unplugged.
Joan Marques
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
John Lennon
I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
Johnny Depp
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Joyce Meyer
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.
Katie Reed
My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?
Kerry Washington
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
Kim McMilllen
Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.
Kristi Ling
When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.
Kristin Neff
Taking care of myself doesn’t mean ‘me first.’ It means ‘me, too.
L.R. Knost
Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Self-care is how you take your power back.
Lalah Delia
Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health — body, mind, and spirit.
Laurie Buchanan, PhD
It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.
Lena Horne
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
Louisa May Alcott
Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.
Mac Anderson
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
What you think of yourself in your mind is nobody’s business. Make it count.
Majid Kazmi
Self-love for me means accepting who I am and dealing with the perceived flaws that I live with.
Malebo Sephodi
It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.
Mandy Hale
In my own deepening understanding of myself I find my capacity to serve others is deepened as well. The better I am at self-care the more genuinely nurturing of others I am able to be.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better, because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up.
Mary Lambert
Practice self-rescue first before you ‘help’ someone else
Maureen Joyce Connolly
You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself.
Michael Hyatt
Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.
Miya Yamanouchi
Remember that this is YOUR LIFE, and nothing is more important than YOU.
Miya Yamanouchi
Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.
Nikki Rowe
Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?
Nikki Rowe
I always give myself Sundays as a spiritual base of renewal—a day when I do absolutely nothing. I sit in my jammies or take a walk, and I allow myself time to BE—capital B-E—with myself.
Oprah Winfrey
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Any time we listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.
Parker L. Palmer
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
Gard the doors of your temple, do not let anyone pollute it with there mess.
Patricio Telman Chincocolo
When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.
Paulo Coelho
I love you but I got to love me more.
Peggi Speers
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
Pema Chodron
Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
Ray Bradbury
You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
For us to feel good emotionally, we have to look after ourselves.
Sam Owen
Your subconscious mind is paying attention to how you treat yourself.
Sam Owen
The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
For those of you who struggle with guilt regarding self-care, answer this question: What greater gift can you give to those you love than your own wholeness?
Shannon Tanner
No more martyring myself.
Sharon E. Rainey
Self-care is allowing yourself to appreciate the moment for what it is, instead of wishing it was something else.
Sharon Pearson
If we truly loved ourselves, we’d never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
Solange Knowles
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Stephen Covey
For me, recovery and self-care are inextricably connected. My recovery from abuse, addiction, and a suicide attempt required dump truck loads of self-care.
Steve Austin
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.
Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side.
Susan Weiss Berry
Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
Tara Brach
To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.
Thich Nhat Han
Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.
Toba Beta
Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.
Vironika Tugaleva
If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.
Vironika Tugaleva
Only you can allow yourself to explore the person in the mirror. Only you can coax yourself into a daring adventure to find your untapped potential.
Vironika Tugaleva
It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over, because there’s nothing you can do about them. And why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.
Wayne Dyer
A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms
Unknown
Life’s too short to spend it at war with yourself.
Unknown
Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place.
Unknown
Take time to do what makes your soul happy.
Unknown
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.
Unknown
You owe yourself the love that you so freely give others.
Unknown