900 Best Spiritual Self Care Quotes: Love Yourself (2023)

1. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

2. I love my soul to spiritually care for it. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

3. “By making time for self-care, you prepare yourself to be your best so you can share your gifts with the world. Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. Self-care isn’t selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”— Eleanor Brownn

4. “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

5. One individual can typically care for no more than 10 people. Creating a 1:10 people system from the beginning allows you to provide the depth of spiritual relationship and mentoring people need and desire, while also scaling for growth. - Author: Bill Woolsey

6. “Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.” — Richie Norton

7. “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.”

8. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn

9. “Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.”

10. Nonfiction filmmakers were afflicted by two problems: one technical, the other spiritual. Technically, they did not have the equipment to do the sort of work I had in mind. Spiritually, they didn't care about the work because they'd been mistrained. - Author: Robert Drew

11. “It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself. What are you doing to nurture yourself? What are you doing to protect yourself? Find a healthy way to express your pain.”

12. “I do not want to suppress the parts of me that most want to soar for fear of what someone else may think or because it may be too much or not worthy enough or not complete or brilliant or normal enough. Self-care also means honoring the truth within us.Set yours free.”

13. “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

14. “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

15. “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

16. How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

17. “If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.” — Dwight L. Moody

18. “People, and women, in particular, tend to prioritize the needs of others over themselves and assume this is the best use of their time and energy. But my observation has been the opposite,” says Monique Derfuss, yoga instructor and gong practitioner who offers gong sound meditation to groups and individuals. “You can’t be there for others if you don’t first unapologetically take care of your own well-being,” says Derfuss, who’s also the president of Sound Wellness, which uses sound and music as a form of healing. (Here are the signs you need to take a mental health day.)

19. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brown

20. “Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it.” ― Avina Celeste

21. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”— Eleanor Roosevelt

22. “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” – David Bailey

23. “Always make decisions that prioritize your inner peace.”— Izey Victoria Odiase

24. How to reach out when I want to shut down.

25. “Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” — Katie Reed

26. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

27. “The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.” – Henri Nouwen

28. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”

29. “You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.”

30. “Bad feminism seems like the only way I can both embrace myself as a feminist and be myself, and so I write. I chatter away on Twitter about everything that makes me angry and all the small things that bring me joy. I write blog posts about the meals I cook as I try to take better care of myself, and with each new entry, I realize that I'm undestroying myself after years of allowing myself to stay damaged.”

31. “You’ve sacrificed too much for others. Now do the same for yourself.” – Mitta Xinindlu

32. “Nothing external to you has any power over you.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “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

34. “Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey.” – Matthew Fox

35. “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

36. “I understand that there will be ups and downs in life, and it is important to learn from these experiences".”

37. “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

38. “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley

39. “How necessary Sundays have become. I reach for them like sleeping lovers on the other side of my earth or my mattress.”

40. “Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company, not needing to use anyone as an escape.” – Samantha Camargo

41. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp

42. “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

43. “The Golden Rule is a two-way street: we should do unto ourselves as we do unto others.” – Rick Hanson

44. “Life’s too short to spend it at war with yourself.” – Unknown

45. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”— Oprah Winfrey

46. “Take time to do what makes your soul happy.” – Unknown

47. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

48. “I love to sleep. When I’m rested, I’m at my best.”– Halle Berry

49. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” Dolly Parton

50. “The challenge is not to be perfect — it is to be whole.”

51. Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not. – Cal Newport

52. “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” – Joshua 1:9

53. “Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.” – Pema Chodron

54. Some things are just better not spread too thin: yourself and peanut butter. – Unknown

55. “Self-care is your fuel ... Whatever the road ahead or the path you’ve taken, self-care is what keeps your motor running and your wheels turning.”— Melissa Steginus

56. “If you think you’re enlightened, go spend a week with your family.” – Ram Dass

57. “Shout out to all the people who haven’t felt okay recently, but are getting up every day and refusing to quit. Stay strong.” – Unknown

58. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen

59. “The care, therefore, of every man’s soul belongs unto himself.” —John Locke

60. “Part of courage is simple consistency.”— Peggy Noonan

61. To minister means to love and care for others. It means to attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Put simply, it means to do what the Savior would do if He were here. - Author: David L. Beck

62. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey

63. Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. – Jim Rohn

64. “Self-kindness is self-empathy. And even when I talk to myself like someone I love and it feels weird, it works.” – Brene Brown

65. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”— Carol Burnett

66. Self care is a sacred-self love. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

67. “I want to feel my life while I’m in it.”— Meryl Streep

68. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”

69. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort”

70. “Be the love you never received.” – Rune Lazuli

71. “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

72. “Your subconscious mind is paying attention to how you treat yourself.” ― Sam Owen

73. “What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar

74. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield

75. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”

76. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

77. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” —Jack Kornfield, author and trained Buddhist monk

78. “The care, therefore, of every man’s soul belongs unto himself.” — John Locke

79. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have, is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli

80. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”— Audre Lorde

81. Self care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life. – Arthur P Ciaramicoli

82. The point is to have a long-term perspective.”

83. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”— Deepak Chopra

84. “Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles, and you will find comfort and guidance.”– Unknown Author

85. “Look after yourself. You have the sole obligation to do that.”

86. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – 14th Dalai Lama

87. We need to replace your vicious stress cycle with a vicious cycle of self-care. – Sara Gottfried

88. “You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.” –Unknown

89. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou

90. “Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.” – Rita Ghatourey

91. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

92. How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth, so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day. – Sam Owen

93. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett

94. “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”— Alice Walker

95. “Growth is necessary but don't convince yourself that those past versions of you were worthless. You wouldn't be here without them.”

96. “Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.”

97. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”

98. “Do things that make you feel good: mind, body, and soul.” – Robyn Conley Downs

99. I don't like this romanticization of Indian people in which Indian people are looked at as spiritual saviors, as people who have always taken care of the land. We're human beings. But I think different cultures have developed different aspects of humanness. - Author: Joy Harjo

100. “Caring for others is important, but Covid-19 taught us that sometimes, by caring for yourself, you’re caring for others, too.” —Becca Kaye, senior care specialist at AvaCare Medical

101. 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

102. “Everyone one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Diana, Princess of Wales

103. “But as for you, be strong, and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” – 2 Chronicles 15:7

104. “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts your life will start to change.” – Unknown

105. “If we don’t take care of ourselves, if we don’t put on the oxygen mask first, we don’t have the capacity to help those people we care so much about.” – Megan McCormick

106. As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep. – Akiroq Brost

107. “You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.” – Unknown

108. “Mind. Body. Soul. These are the three things self-care is all about.” —Kathy Sledge, Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter (Sister Sledge)

109. “The best health care plan is a self-care plan.” – Nina Leavins

110. “I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” – Kaci Diane

111. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski

112. “Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay

113. “Can you find some peace today?”

114. “If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.” — Anne Lamott

115. “Learning self-care is like building your own lifeboat, plank by plank. Once you’ve got your boat, you’ll still be rocked by the waves of life, but you’ll have a feeling of safety, and stability that means you can pick other people up on your way.” – Nadia Narain

116. “When you can't find your purpose in a day, make it to look after yourself.”

117. “Self love, self respect, self worth… there is a reason they all start with ‘self’. You can’t find them in anyone else.”– Dr. Anne Brown

118. “Care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.” —Socrates

119. “The people who trigger us to feel negative emotion are messengers. They are messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.” – Teal Swan

120. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius

121. Your subconscious mind is paying attention to how you treat yourself. ― Sam Owen

122. “Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.” – Rena Rose

123. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”

124. “This revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.”— Tara Brach

125. “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dkystra

126. “Love, connection, and acceptance are your birthright. To claim them you need only look within yourself.”

127. “Don’t compare your life to others, there’s no comparison between the sun and the moon, they both shine when it’s their time.” – Unknown

128. “Self-care is neither frivolous nor indulgent. It is not narcissistic or greedy. It is, however, smart and sound. If, for whatever reason, you do not nurture your Self, you risk becoming worn and wearied, hollow in the shell, unable to maintain any energy in the moment, much less move forward with vigor.

129. “If you’re feeling tired and run down rest, look after yourself, the world can wait.” – Akiroq Brost

130. “The world has slowed so you can rediscover yourself.” – Unknown

131. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”— Coco Chanel

132. When the body forces you to STOP, it’s saying, ‘Hey buddy, you’ve gone too far’. ― Jacqueline Escolme

133. “Remember that this is YOUR LIFE, and nothing is more important than YOU.”― Miya Yamanouchi

134. “The time will come

135. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.” – Marvin Gaye

136. “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”

137. “When the well’s dry, we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin

138. “To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”

139. “I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?” – Goldie Hawn

140. “People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.” – Sanaya Roman

141. “Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served.” – Tene Edwards

142. “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.”— Grantland Rice

143. “Self-love for me means accepting who I am and dealing with the perceived flaws that I live with.” ― Malebo Sephodi

144. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

145. “It really is ok for there to be times when you stop putting everyone else first, and just do what’s best for you.” – Tracey Leech

146. “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”

147. “It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decide what those words actually mean.”

148. “I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.”

149. The only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen. – Unknown

150. “Gard the doors of your temple, do not let anyone pollute it with there mess.” ― Patricio Telman Chincocolo

151. “Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being.”

152. “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

153. “Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.” – Steve Maraboli

154. “Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head,

155. “It’s so empowering to say ‘this isn’t serving me’ and walk away in peace.” – Unknown

156. “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” – Joyce Meyer

157. “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.” — George Bernard Shaw

158. “Self-care is your fuel…Whatever the road ahead or the path you’ve taken, self-care is what keeps your motor running and your wheels turning.” ― Melissa Steginus

159. “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”

160. 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

161. “Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”— Dale Carnegie

162. “It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please take care of yourself.”

163. “Self-care refers to a meaningful self-investment.” ― Melissa Steginus

164. “The only person you shouldn’t be able to live without is you.” ― Chris McGeown

165. “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

166. “Replace the word ‘spend’ with ‘invest’ in your vocabulary and notice how it impacts your everyday decisions.” – Randy Thio

167. “Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit, you choose.” – Proverbs 18:21

168. “If you wish to be loved, love.” – Seneca

169. You can't make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left. - Author: Kate McGahan

170. (Whatever that may mean.) But in a way, it’s also an age where you are confronted with responsibilities and also that of self-care. Moving out, becoming that more independent you.

171. “The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.” – Marianne Williamson

172. “You have to expect spiritual warfare whenever you stand up for righteousness or call attention to basic values. It's just a matter of light battling the darkness. But the light wins every time. You can't throw enough darkness on light to put it out.” – Thomas Kinkade

173. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn

174. Starting today, forget what’s gone, appreciate what remains, and look forward to what’s coming next. – Unknown

175. “Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.” – Jack Kornfield

176. “Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.”

177. “Dear Daughter,

178. “The body can endure practically anything--pain, fatigue, you name it-- but its the mind that matters.”

179. How to listen and not try to solve someone else's problems.

180. “Take time for self. It is a source of empowerment.” – Dixie L. Nichols

181. “Self-care has become a new priority — the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.”

182. “Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, and magical person that you are.” – Unknown

183. “Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself.” – Melodie Beattie

184. “Know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.” – Oprah Winfrey

185. “Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.”

186. “Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.”

187. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. "

188. “Self-care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia

189. “True self-care is not bath salts and chocolate cake, it’s making the choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Brianna Wiest

190. “Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.” – Oriah Mountain Dreamer

191. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”

192. “We turn not older with years but newer every day.”— Emily Dickinson

193. “We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.” – Unknown

194. “Flowers need time to bloom. So do you.” – Unknown

195. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

196. “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa

197. “Realization is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.” – Ramana Maharshi

198. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy.” – Kim McMillen

199. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” — Audre Lorde

200. “Relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I’d say that was it.” – Jed McKenna

201. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Gandhi

202. “Make happiness your priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” – Bronnie Ware

203. “It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.” – Francis of Assisi

204. History will be kind to you if you write your own. – Unknown

205. “Self care is not a waste of time. Self care makes your use of time more sustainable.” – Jackie Viramontez

206. Rumi and Shams bring to our lives the simple truth that we are not alone, that God really does care. And God's joyous love for each of us is rivaled only by Her divine sense of humor. - Author: Jamila Hammad

207. “Breathe darling, this is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.” – S.C. Laurie

208. “Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

209. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ” – Oscar Wilde

210. “Just as my body suddenly yearns for long walks in the warm sunshine, so, too, my soul yearns to be stretched and watered after a somewhat stagnant season of comfortable coziness.” –Laura Thomas

211. “All relationships are a reflection of your relationship with yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

212. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”

213. “You get the benefits of both giving and receiving compassion when you offer it to yourself.” – Rick Hanson

214. Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. - Author: Dolores Del Rio

215. “Don’t allow yourself to think that toxic love is the best love you can ever have.” – Khalilah Velez

216. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran

217. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the now the primary focus of your life.” – Eckhart Tolle

218. Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. - Author: Theo Van Doesburg

219. “Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.”— Beth Behrs

220. “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett

221. “Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.” - Ellen DeGeneres

222. “No matter your religious or spiritual beliefs … for every person who inhales and exhales… you are alive, you can dream.” – Georgia Dawkins

223. “Stopping takes courage, too.” – Emma Xu

224. “Self care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia

225. “Compassion for self and others may very well be the answer to healing our hurt, hate-filled world.” – Laura Jack

226. “Don’t go back to less just because you’re too impatient to wait for better.” – Unknown

227. “I lied and said I was busy.

228. “Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.” – John Mark Green

229. “Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.” — Dolores del Rio

230. “Self-care is how you take your power back.”— Lalah Delia

231. “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.”

232. “Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.”― Gina Greenlee

233. “It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.”

234. “Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.”

235. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah

236. “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

237. “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.”

238. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel

239. It is only within the context of the church that ongoing spiritual care, encouragement, and accountability can occur. It is only as we use the powerful word of the gospel in each other's lives that we can change. - Author: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

240. “What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.” ― Caroline Myss

241. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan

242. “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

243. “Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail

244. If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose. - Author: Napoleon Hill

245. “Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.”— Mary Catherine Bateson

246. Talk to yourself as you would to someone you love. – Brené Brown

247. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

248. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”

249. “The worst outcome in this world is not having self esteem. If you don’t love yourself, who will?” – Naval Ravikant

250. “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.” – Ed Sullivan

251. “If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit.” – Alexandra Vasiliu

252. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott

253. “Spiritual growth is not like fast food. It takes time for its roots to grow, and that requires us to be receptive and patient.” – Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalom

254. “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

255. “Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina

256. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay

257. “We live in anxious times, my love,

258. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

259. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.”

260. “Happiness is a choice,” observes psychotherapist Jennifer Tomko, owner of Clarity Health Solutions in Jupiter, Florida, which is why these wise words of Carlos Castaneda resonate with her. Self-care isn’t only about taking time for yourself. It’s also about choosing to look at things positively, even when that takes effort. You can assume the best or the worst of other people, but “assuming the best is an investment in my own well-being,” Tomko adds. (This is what optimistic people do every day.)

261. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — John Steinbeck

262. Do not forget to care for your body, soul and spirit. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

263. “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.”

264. “Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.”— Cecilia Tran

265. “The entire universe deserve your love. You also deserve to experience it back.” – Anonymous

266. “Self-care means considering yourself a worthwhile person and presenting yourself as valuable, capable, and deserving. In other words, self-care seeks to redress an imbalance that develops when you don’t take proper care of yourself, whether by inattention or by choice.”― Arin Murphy-Hiscock

267. “You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.” — Jonathan Van Ness

268. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”— Buddha

269. “We need to replace your vicious stress cycle with a vicious cycle of self-care.” – Sara Gottfried

270. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”— M. Scott Peck

271. “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters, you will too.” – Jennae Cecilia

272. “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dykstra

273. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.” – Wilfred Peterson

274. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain

275. “I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

276. “Compassion for yourself is fundamental, since if you don’t care how you feel and want to do something about it, it’s hard to make an effort to become happier and more resilient. Compassion is both soft and muscular. For example, studies show that when people feel compassion, motor planning areas in the brain begin preparing for action.” – Rick Hanson

277. “Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”

278. “Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.” – William Blake

279. “I will never apologize for being me, but I will apologize for the times that I am not.” – Michael Carini

280. “I am unapologetically myself.” – Unknown

281. “Truly, sacred rest is soul care. We honor quiet time alone with God. We intentionally step away from the chaos of life. We unplug from noise and distractions. We relish moments of tranquility.” –Dana Arcuri

282. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”

283. “If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.”

284. “Be kind to the person you are now.” – iambrilliyant

285. “There are no prerequisites to worthiness. You are born worthy.” – Unknown

286. “Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.” – Nathaniel Branden

287. “Pamper yourself into alignment with who you really are and then face your day.” ― Abraham

288. “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.” – Rita Mae Brown

289. “You can’t fix the problems of the soul with a change in behavior only.” –Rob Reimer

290. “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

291. If you want to do a certain thing, you first have to be a certain person. Once you become that certain person, you will not care anymore about doing that certain thing. - Author: Dogen

292. “Your self-care is your superpower, cultivate the heck out of it – love yourself up.” ― Anese Cavanaugh

293. “Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.”

294. “Do not be afraid to give yourself everything you’ve ever wanted in life.” ― Frank Lloyd Wright

295. “To love is to be vulnerable.” – Brene Brown

296. “You have to be odd to be number one.” – Dr. Seuss

297. “Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.”

298. “Be enough for yourself first, the rest of the world can wait.” – Unknown

299. “You ain’t gotta like me. I like me.” – Kanye West

300. “Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.”― Stephanie Lahart

301. You never know what you have until you clean your room. – Unknown

302. “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.

303. “Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.” – Beth Moore

304. How to take a break when I'm overwhelmed, and promise to return to the conversation a little later.”

305. Any time we can 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 J Palmer

306. “Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”

307. “No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me.” – Michelle D’Avella

308. You can’t buy happiness. But you can buy yoga classes and that’s kind of the same thing. – Unknown

309. “Be you, love you. All ways, always.”

310. “Self-care doesn’t necessarily mean jogging!”— Sandra Oh

311. “Self-Care equals success.” – Dixie L. Nichols

312. “My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.” – Shakti Gawain

313. “I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to God. To be further from y'all.”

314. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

315. “Your mind has been working so hard. Be gentle with it. Let it take a much-needed break.” – Emma Xu

316. ”If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”

317. “It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne

318. “When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”

319. “It's safe to receive.

320. “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.”— Billy Graham

321. Love is a spiritual practice that matures us as we try and try again to leave behind our isolation, expose our vulnerabilities, and make commitments to care truly for one another. - Author: Nanette Sawyer

322. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” – Sydney J. Harris

323. “Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.” ― Pema Chodron

324. Work expands to whatever time you give it. – Mel Robbins

325. “Be silly. Be fun. Be different. Be crazy. Be you, because life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Unknown

326. “I know what I bring to the table… so trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.” – Unknown

327. “The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.” – Swami Sivananda

328. “When you realize there is no lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu

329. “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?” – Virginia Woolf

330. “What you think of yourself in your mind is nobody’s business. Make it count.” ― Majid Kazmi

331. “Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.”— Lois P. Frankel

332. “Be you, love you. All ways, always.” — Alexandra Elle

333. “Time doing nothing is never wasted.”

334. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”— Martin Luther King Jr.

335. Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal. – Nikki Rowe

336. “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray

337. “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.”

338. “I don’t fit into any stereotypes and I like myself that way.” – C. Joybell

339. “It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”

340. “Comparison is an act of violence against the self.” – Iyanla Vanzant

341. “We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero

342. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”

343. I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts. - Author: Laurence McKinley Gould

344. “More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett

345. “Take good care, love yourself and know your worth. In this world, you need to do your best, in order to become the best.”

346. When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals. - Author: Adolf Hitler

347. “Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.” – Jack Hyles

348. “Know your worth. Don’t ask for it. State it once and never accept anything less.” – Unknown

349. I must take care above all that I cultivate communion with Christ, for though that can never be the basis of my peace - mark that - yet it will be the channel of it. - Author: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

350. “I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me.” – Brigitte Nicole

351. “The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I will.’ Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.”— Charles Dickens

352. “Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.” – Vincent McNabb

353. “Take time off. The world will not fall apart without you.” – Malebo Sephodi

354. “If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” – Dr. Maya Angelou

355. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott

356. “Fashion is my way to express how much I love myself.” – Laura Brunereau

357. “Bask in the warmth of your own light.”

358. “There are so many ways to relieve the anxiety,

359. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” — M. Scott Peck

360. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

361. “When you feel like you can’t fight anymore — don’t give up. Just take some time to rest.”

362. “No woman can control her destiny if she doesn’t give to herself as much as she gives of herself.”

363. Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. – Princess Diana

364. Make a beautiful home for yourself. Make this the space where you feel safe, loved, and free to explore. – Tiara Tribe

365. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou

366. “Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.” – Dolores del Río

367. Give your stress wings, and let it fly away. ” – Terri Guillemets

368. “Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.”— Claudia Black

369. How to say what I mean, as simply as possible, and not make people guess (even if I think they should).

370. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” – Brene Brown

371. “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.” – Marcus Aurelius

372. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. ” – Steve Maraboli

373. The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down – C Joybell C

374. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ”

375. “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.” – Vine Deloria Jr.

376. “People have to pretend you’re a bad person so they don’t feel guilty about the things they did to you.” – Unknown

377. “Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.”– Sharon Salzberg

378. “What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.” ― Lucille Clifton

379. “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.” — Tyra Banks‍

380. “You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breaths and you are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest.”

381. 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

382. “If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.”

383. “The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.” – Black Elk

384. Don’t save what’s left after spending but spend what’s left after saving. – Warren Buffet

385. “I just moved into a new house, so I love spending time at home. Everything for me is all about self-care ... I really feel that if I’m at my best, then I’m able to come to my job and really be feeling the best. So if I’m not working out or going on a hike, then I’m at home recharging and cooking dinner and hanging out with my cat.”— Lea Michele

386. “The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” – Diane von Furstenberg

387. “When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.” – Kristin Neff

388. “You owe yourself the love that you so freely give others.” – Unknown

389. “Self-care sometimes is doing the things that will make your next 2 hours difficult, but your next 10 years easier.” – Em.x.thoughts

390. The spiritual director should not reduce his attention to the internal life because of external occupations, nor should he relinquish his care for external matters because of his anxiety for the internal life. - Author: Gregory The Great

391. “It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

392. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” – Walt Disney

393. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”

394. “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

395. “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”— Pierre Corneille

396. “You can’t really be present for the people in your life if you aren’t taking care of yourself.” —Kerry Washington

397. “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” – Lalah Delia

398. “I see poetry as spiritual medicine.” – Mahmoud Darwish

399. There are no traffic jams in the extra mile. – Unknown

400. “Well-being comes from meeting our needs, not denying them.” – Rick Hanson

401. “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

402. “Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.”

403. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”— Dolly Parton

404. “I wish I could make everyone understand how important this statement is: go where you are wanted.” – S. McNutt

405. “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others. ” – Christopher Germer

406. “If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.”

407. Self care is how you take your power back. – Lalah Delia

408. “You are strong enough to handle whatever this week brings. Get some rest knowing you are capable.”

409. It’s never too late to be what you might have been. – Jane Travis

410. “Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.” – Golda Poretsky

411. “Bring the sun over my heart, I want to bloom.” – Alexandra Vasiliu

412. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

413. Life is the greatest grace. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

414. “Sometimes it is okay to simply do nothing. Put down the to-do list, cancel your plans, and just sit there and relax.

415. “I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.” – Paulo Coelho

416. “You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.” – Swami Vivekananda

417. How do you define ‘taking care of yourself’? Create a new self-care practice today. Observe your comfort level when it comes to being good to yourself. Discomfort is a wise teacher. – Caroline Myss and Peter Occhiogrosso

418. “Your darkest shadows can only be less than your brightest light.”

419. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”

420. “Self-care is not a waste of time; self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.”

421. It’s the thoughtful little details that make it feel like home. – Tiara Tribe

422. “The right mental attitude will guide you towards feeling a sense of love that you deserve to experience.” – Anonymous

423. “Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.” – Ramana Maharshi

424. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”

425. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”— Katrina Mayer

426. Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. To the children and the innocent it's all the same. - Author: Jack Kerouac

427. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”— Rita Mae Brown

428. “You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you.” – Julia Cameron

429. Self-care isn't selfish. It's self esteem. — Ashley Judd

430. “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 others. Anytime we can 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.”

431. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” — Sydney J. Harris

432. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.”— Paulo Coelho

433. “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

434. If we care for our spiritual needs, we shall find strength for any other well-being. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

435. “Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health—take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.” – Beyoncé

436. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” — Eckhart Tolle

437. “You cannot breathe life into someone refusing to inhale." Colleen Songs”

438. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

439. Washington Street,

440. When something goes wrong in your life, yell ‘Plot twist!’ and move on. – Unknown

441. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur

442. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” — Swami Vivekananda

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

444. “You should love others in the same measure as you love yourself—as if your neighbor were your very self.” – Lawrence G. Lovasick

445. “You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.”— Abiola Abrams

446. When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abusive cannot coexist. Abuse and neglect are, by definition, the opposites of nurturance and care. - Author: Bell Hooks

447. “...don't get more anxious

448. “The secret to a happy life is to accept change gracefully.”— Jimmy Stewart

449. Be you, love you. All ways, always. ― Alexandra Elle

450. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett

451. Whatever you are, be a good one. – Unknown

452. If at first you don’t succeed then skydiving isn’t for you. – Unknown

453. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

454. 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

455. “‘Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.”

456. “Self-care is non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.”— Jonathan Van Ness

457. “One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself… to take care of yourself.” — Goldie Hawn

458. “The inhale is absolutely essential if you want to continue to exhale.” – Roshi Joan Halifax

459. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”— Princess Diana

460. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”

461. “Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.”

462. “You need to know where you are, so you can start to chart your course. You need to know who you are, so that you understand your armament and bolster yourself in respect to your limitations. You need to know where you are going, so that you can limit the extent of chaos in your life, restructure order, and bring the divine force of Hope to bear on the world. (…) You must discipline yourself carefully. You must keep the promises you make to yourself, and reward yourself, so that you can trust and motivate yourself.”

463. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams

464. “Every stitch you knit can be a self-care practice. Knitting is our constant companion as we grow and expand our capacity for joy.”

465. I don't care what anyone says, the stars give you hope on a dark and gloomy night. - Author: Nikki Rowe

466. “The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.”

467. “I think I deserve something beautiful.”— Elizabeth Gilbert

468. Real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy. - Author: Henri J.M. Nouwen

469. “I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”

470. Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower. It needs to be nurtured, cared for and 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

471. “Our entire life… consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” – Jean Anouih

472. “Honestly, self-care is not fluffy. It’s something we should take seriously.” — Kris Carr

473. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”— John F. Kennedy

474. Home is where your story begins. – Unknown

475. “We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” – Calvin Coolidge

476. “I am thinking about the joy in loose ends,

477. “If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.”

478. “Self-care has become a new priority – the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.”

479. “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

480. “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne

481. “Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.”

482. “At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

483. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”– Brian Andreas

484. “Though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.” – Psalm 27:3

485. This is a deeply spiritual issue ... Do we want to spend more time trying to care for our fellow man or do we want to just pursue more virtual reality? That's the issue before us.. and it's being played out in the world of the environment. - Author: Ed Begley Jr.

486. “It’s okay to do nothing if you can once in a while. It’s okay to not be perfect, to not get it all done…take care of yourself. Do what recharges you. Lessons I’m learning in my old age.” ― Leah Remini

487. Being extremely honest with oneself is a good exercise. – Freud

488. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”

489. “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.” – Stephen Richards

490. “Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero

491. “We all collectively underwent a trauma in recent months,” notes Becca Kaye, whose life’s work is about taking care of other people. “With the priority being survival, emotional health flew to the wayside. It has become imperative now that we focus on self-care. We’ve neglected it long enough. Now it’s time to relax our bodies, unwind our minds, and de-stress. Self-care is an integral part of the recuperation process.”

492. “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

493. “Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.”― Christine Morgan

494. “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes

495. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John Steinbeck

496. “Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.”

497. “Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” — Alison Malee

498. Self-discipline is self-caring. – M Scott Peck

499. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” — Maya Angelou

500. “I make it a point to practice self-care. I make an appointment with myself.” —Manisha Singal, MD, internal medicine physician on the frontlines of the battle against Covid-19

501. “Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.” — Cecilia Tran

502. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”

503. “Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love, it’s self destruction.” – Laci Green

504. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”

505. Don’t think money does everything or you’re going to end up doing everything for money. – Voltaire

506. Daily mediation is a healthy spiritual exercise. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

507. “He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.” ― Albert Schweitzer

508. “Self-care is allowing yourself to appreciate the moment for what it is, instead of wishing it was something else.” ― Sharon Pearson

509. “Be loud about the things that are important to you.” – Karen Walrond

510. “The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.” — Chuang Tzu

511. “You shine like love

512. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” —Carlos Castaneda, American author

513. “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”— Tyra Banks

514. “If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” – Banksy

515. “The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.”

516. “When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just a part of someone else.” – Jean Culligan

517. “We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.”

518. “If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?” – Ru Paul

519. “Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz

520. “It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”

521. “And above all, remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.” – Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

522. “The good news: We can start practicing new skills in life anytime we want. Here are some examples of things I'm always practicing:

523. “To me, self-care isn’t really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.”

524. “The Best Health Care Plan Is A Self Care Plan”

525. “Take care of yourself as if you’re the most awesome person you’ve ever met.” – Jen Sincero

526. “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

527. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William Jones

528. “Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.”

529. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz

530. “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

531. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

532. “The Universe will never require you to set yourself on fire to provide heat for others.”― Clyde Lee Dennis

533. “What you think of yourself in your mind is nobody's business. Make it count.”

534. “Just because you take breaks doesn’t mean you’re broken.”

535. “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel

536. “Unconditional self love is all the really matters in life. It’s where real life begins.” – Anonymous

537. “Only bacteria thrive and live well in a poorly cared for body.”

538. “Their opinions are not your oxygen.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones

539. “Another method or way of reducing stress and depression. Is to avoid making time and sacrifices for people who think less of you. People who think you are not important. You will spend most of your precious time. Trying to prove and to get their validation, but still, they won't care, because to them you not worth it.”

540. 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. - Author: Miya Yamanouchi

541. “The self-love needed for self-care [is] missing. Academicians use terms like self-esteem, self-worth, self-support, self-care, but rarely self-love. That is left to the spiritual community. People don’t realize that taking care of their own needs; eating, drinking, brushing their teeth, showering, wearing clean clothes, going to work are all acts of self-love.” – Angela C. Santomero

542. “You can't assumeI'm in bad shape just because I've run out of the energy to impress you.”

543. “When thoughts have boundaries, problems are easier to solve.

544. “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.”

545. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

546. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

547. “The love and attention you always wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.” — Bryant McGill

548. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” —Eleanor Brown, author

549. A lot of people go into debt just to keep up with those who are already in debt. – Unknown

550. “The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.”

551. “For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it.” – Ephesians 5:29

552. “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

553. “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.”

554. “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” – Roman Price

555. Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It’s not something physical. – Sophia Loren

556. “Allow yourself the things you need right now. Whether that’s space, rest, support, or something else, know that you are not a burden for taking care of yourself.” — TWLOHA

557. “Joy, I treasure you”

558. Whatever is good for your soul: do that. – Unknown

559. “A Letter to My Heart

560. “What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.” – Kentetsu Takamori

561. “For us to feel good emotionally, we have to look after ourselves.” ― Sam Owen

562. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

563. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”— Nora Ephron

564. “Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.”― Amy Ippoliti

565. “Let all that you do be done in love.” – 1 Corinthians 16:14

566. “Self-discipline is self-caring.”

567. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you really are.” – Carl Jung

568. “You can’t really be present for the people in your life if you aren’t taking care of yourself.” — Kerry Washington

569. Progress is when we forgive ourselves for taking so long to treat our bodies like a home. – Yung Pueblo

570. “The best thing you can do for yourself is spend time getting to know who you are, what you like, and what you dislike”

571. “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

572. If all else fails, take a nap. – Unknown

573. Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'. - Author: Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

574. “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”— Michael Jordan

575. “When you take care of yourself, you will improve the length and quality of your life as well as increase the quality of your business and add more years to its life.” -Pooja Agnihotri

576. One should take care of one's own [True] Self and do supervision of everything else. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

577. “Self-care is non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.”

578. “(Story on an Egyptian pharaoh)

579. “You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Dr. Maya Angelou

580. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling

581. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown

582. Don’t look back – you’re not going that way. – Unknown

583. “Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore, it cannot exist alone but requires all mankind to share it.” – Mary Baker Eddy

584. “We must treat ourselves with care, respect and compassion before we can effectively extend these things to others.”

585. “You use up everything you've got trying to give everybody what they want.”

586. Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. – William S Burroughs

587. “Sometimes all we need is a little pampering to help us feel better…” ― Charles M. Schulz

588. “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

589. “You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.” — Abiola Abrams

590. “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

591. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”

592. “Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”― Francine Rivers

593. “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda

594. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise Hay

595. “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley

596. “Man will never be stronger nor independent if he lives under perpetual motivation of others.” ― Toba Beta

597. “I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”

598. “Sometimes feeling good isn’t about picking up more things to do, but about letting go of things that have nothing to do with you.”

599. “I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me.” - Cher

600. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” — Paulo Coelho

601. Don’t tell me what your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. – James W Frick

602. Only bacteria thrive and live in a poorly cared for body. – Nina Leavins

603. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” – Anne Frank

604. “When I’m by myself, I can be myself, which is what I want to be. Not just part of someone else.” – Jean Culligan

605. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”

606. “Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not.” – Deepak Chopra

607. “How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth. So we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.” – Sam Owen

608. “Real change will come when you focus on yourself.”- Ritu Ghatourey

609. “Self-compassion provides the same benefits as high self-esteem without its drawbacks.”

610. “Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.”— Richie Norton

611. “Don’t let the bad days make you think you have a bad life.” – Unknown

612. “What does it mean to choose life?...

613. Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk: essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall. – Vironika Tugaleva

614. “You’re lovely even with your scars, lovely the way you are. So open up your lovely heart and don’t try so hard.” – Amy Grant

615. “Take time off...

616. “Self-care is how you take your power back.”

617. “Anybody can thank God for good things. But when you can thank God even in the bad things, your faith grows and your spiritual roots go deeper.” – Rick Warren

618. “Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

619. “Allow yourself the things you need right now. Whether that’s space, rest, support, or something else, know that you are not a burden for taking care of yourself.”

620. “Who is the only person in your life who is available 24/7 to provide you with care and kindness? You.”

621. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

622. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”

623. “Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.” – Mac Anderson

624. “The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis

625. “Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.”

626. “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”

627. “God's ultimate goal for your life on Earth is not comfort but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ. Christlikeness is all about transforming your character, not your personality.” – Rick Warren

628. “You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang

629. Money won’t make you happy but everyone wants to find that out for themselves. – Unknown

630. “If you seek peace, be still. If you seek wisdom, be silent. If you seek love, be yourself.” – Becca Lee

631. Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes … even you. – Anne Lamott

632. If you’re not in the arena also getting your butt kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback. – Brené Brown

633. Self care is giving the world the best of you instead of what’s left of you. – Katie Reed

634. “Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.” – Barbara Kingsolver

635. “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

636. “Honestly, self-care is not fluffy. It’s something we should take seriously.”— Kris Carr

637. “Practice self-rescue first before you ‘help’ someone else” ― Maureen Joyce Connolly

638. “I am both the comforter and the one in need of comfort.”

639. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown

640. “Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.” – George Eliot

641. – Leo Tolstoy

642. “You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.”

643. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

644. “Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every single day and the rest will fall into place.” – Unknown

645. “Each positive thought, every vibrant attitude, all purposeful activities water the seeds for success along your path. You will encounter many seeds for success today. Pay attention to these and feed them appropriately. Then maintain their beautiful growth through conscious self-care.”

646. “Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.”— Jonathan Van Ness

647. If you judge people, you’ll have no time to love them. – Mother Theresa

648. “Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

649. “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.”

650. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” – Jack Kornfield

651. “We can climb mountains with self-love.”— Samira Wiley

652. “The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.”

653. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”

654. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”— Rumi

655. “Grab a coffee. Journal your intentions. Get to work. Create miracles.”— Elyse Santilli

656. “Nurture your spark. Find your uniqueness. Know how much you matter.” – Unknown

657. “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

658. Successful people aren’t afraid to say ‘No’. – Unknown

659. “You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.”— Tina Turner

660. “To accept oneself completely is to know the truest kind of self-love.” – Anonymous

661. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

662. “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.” – Oprah Winfrey

663. “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

664. I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. – Audre Lorde

665. I am my own work of art.”

666. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

667. “Sometimes you will need people to support you and they won’t be available, not because they don’t care but because they’re the main character of their own life, not just the supporting character in yours.” – kesiawrites

668. “Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.” – Swami Vivekananda

669. “Every morning, look in the mirror and affirm positive words into your life.”— Lailah Gifty Akita

670. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

671. “In fact that is why the lives of most women are so vaguely unsatisfactory. They are always doing secondary and menial things (that do not require all their gifts and ability) for others and never anything for themselves. Society and husbands praise them for it (when they get too miserable or have nervous breakdowns) though always a little perplexedly and half-heartedly and just to be consoling. The poor wives are reminded that that is just why wives are so splendid -- because they are so unselfish and self-sacrificing and that is the wonderful thing about them! But inwardly women know that something is wrong. They sense that if you are always doing something for others, like a servant or nurse, and never anything for yourself, you cannot do others any good. You make them physically more comfortable. But you cannot affect them spiritually in any way at all. For to teach, encourage, cheer up, console, amuse, stimulate or advise a husband or children or friends, you have to be something yourself. [...]"If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say; 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.”

672. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.”

673. Everybody is different, and every body is different. – Beverly Diehl

674. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morely

675. “Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”

676. “Don’t forget to appreciate yourself.”― Debasish Mridha

677. The people who think they’re crazy enough to change the world are the ones that do. – Steve Jobs

678. “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

679. “You are strong enough to handle whatever this week brings. Get some rest knowing you are capable.” — TWLOHA‍

680. “We saw this sign

681. “You have to extend effort to disengage

682. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”— Eartha Kitt

683. “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” – Madonna

684. “This year, I will love the work in progress that is me.” – Unknown

685. “Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.” –Jane Goodall

686. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” — Princess Diana

687. “Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.” — Jackie Viramontez

688. “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.”

689. Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my car keys in the fridge. – Unknown

690. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

691. “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

692. “You are in a much better position to serve others when your basis needs are met and your ‘tank is full’.”

693. “Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.”― Nikki Rowe

694. “Realisation is not the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.” – Ramana Maharshi

695. I love you but I got to love me more. – Peggi Speers

696. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

697. “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

698. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”– Robert Hand

699. Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. – Oprah Winfrey

700. People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. – AA Milne

701. The world will praise you one moment and defame you the next. So why should we care for praise or defamation? - Author: Dada Bhagwan

702. You are the only person who can truly change your life. – Dave Ramsey

703. “An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly.” – Unknown

704. “If someone doesn’t care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.”

705. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” – Joseph Campbell

706. “We wait too long for dowries, for the sweat of strangers, to remember our own perfume.”

707. “To heal ourselves from stress and emotional burnout we must give ourselves full permission to slow down and rest.” –Esther Marie Yoga

708. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”— Hermann Hesse

709. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. Joybell C.

710. “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” — Pierre Corneille

711. “You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are.” – Rachel Hollis

712. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Maya Angelou

713. “Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.” – Keanu Reeves

714. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”— Anne Lamott

715. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” –Oprah Winfrey

716. “Taking care of myself doesn’t mean “me first.” It means “me, too.” – L. R. Knost

717. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Dr. Maya Angelou

718. “I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”— Billie Jean King

719. “Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created.” – Esther 4:14

720. “Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.” – Imran Khan

721. In the empty expanses of space, the wandering traders need men like myself to care for the spiritual side of a life so given over to commerce, and worldly pursuits. - Author: Isaac Asimov

722. “Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.” -William Shakespeare

723. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” – Brene Brown

724. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”

725. “Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.”– Sophia Bush

726. “Loving ourselves points us to capacities of resilience, compassion, and understanding within that are simply part of being alive.”

727. “When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and sense of purpose.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

728. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”— Barbara De Angelis

729. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”— Stephen Covey

730. “I’m doing it for me.” – Unknown

731. “I believe that self-care is a daily practice that should involve your interests, needs and preferences. And it should have room to evolve with you over time.” – Portia Jackson-Preston

732. “I think it’s when you take care of yourself, you love yourself that you truly bloom and look your most beautiful.” — Heart Evangelista

733. “Seek to be whole, not perfect.” – Oprah

734. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”— Helen Keller

735. Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you. – Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

736. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse

737. “You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.” – Cory Booker

738. “If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.” -Anne Lamott

739. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

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741. “The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

742. “Let the breath lead the way.” – Sharon Salzberg

743. “Inner peace beings the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chodron

744. “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”— Phyllis Diller

745. “Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.”

746. “No more martyring myself.”― Sharon E. Rainey

747. I gave myself care when it wanted destruction and that is when my healing began. – Juansen Dizon

748. “Doubt me, hate me, you’re the inspiration I need.” – Anonymous

749. “Care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves.” — Socrates

750. “The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.” – Alex Elle

751. “One person’s self-care isn’t necessarily another’s—there is going to be a lot of individuality.”— Gail Saltz, M.D.

752. “Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.” – Unknown

753. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.”— Venus Williams

754. “For though I fall, I will rise again.” – Micah 7:8

755. “People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.”— Sanaya Roman

756. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”

757. Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of. - Author: Jaggi Vasudev

758. “When we care for ourselves as our very own beloved—with naps, healthy food, clean sheets, a lovely cup of tea—we can begin to give in wildly generous ways to the world, from abundance. —Anne Lamott, author

759. “Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.” — Tracee Ellis Ross ‍

760. “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”

761. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

762. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”

763. “Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.” ― Imani Shola

764. “The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.”

765. “Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.” — Bob Dylan

766. “Burnout will have you taking a pause for weeks, months, and even years. Take care of yourself and prioritize your overall needs. You will actually have better results after some much-needed time of relaxation.

767. “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.“ – Daniel Defoe

768. “The pandemic has threatened the mental and physical well-being of each and every one of us. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing have increased isolation,” says Wayne Jonas, MD, family physician, expert on integrative health, and executive director of Samueli Integrative Health Programs, in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Jonas notes the instinct to manage stress through self-care is not only natural but healthy.

769. “Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.”

770. “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.”

771. “The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” – Margaret Fuller

772. Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies that care for their citizens, harmonize with the cycles of nature, and receive and honor the vast healing light that quietly connects us all. - Author: Jonathan Talat Phillips

773. “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

774. “I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself.” – Pietro Aretino

775. “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.”

776. “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.”

777. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”— Oscar Wilde

778. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”— Louisa May Alcott

779. “Wake up and live.” – Bob Marley

780. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”

781. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” — André Gide

782. “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.”— William Shakespeare

783. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

784. “- Saying you need more time

785. “Grab a coffee. Journal your intentions. Get to work. Create miracles.” — Elyse Santilli

786. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day

787. “Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.”

788. “My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.”

789. “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

790. “I really built myself up, darn it, to be very strong.”— Barbara Bush

791. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito flying around. – Unknown

792. “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

793. “By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty.”

794. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”— Leo Tolstoy

795. “Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.” — Carrie-Anne Moss

796. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. – Maya Angelou

797. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”— Sir Edmund Hillary

798. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck

799. “Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” —Audre Lorde, feminist and civil rights leader

800. “Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.”― Bryant McGill

801. “When we are spiritually healthy, we realize that we exist beyond the physical and our life has a sense of meaning and purpose.” – Robyn L. Gobin

802. Never spend your money before you’ve earned it. – Thomas Jefferson

803. “You always say such lovely things to me, Red. Do you say them to yourself?”

804. “Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.” – Gabriel García Márquez

805. “Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

806. “You can’t take care of anyone else unless you first take care of yourself.”― Michael Hyatt

807. “If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?” — RuPaul

808. “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”— Eckhart Tolle

809. “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

810. “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

811. “Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.”

812. Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire. – Amy Ippoliti

813. “You have to choose yourself, even when others refuse to.” – R. H. Sin

814. Self care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how. ― Imani Shola

815. “Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.”

816. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

817. “You are good enough. You do deserve good things. You are smart enough. You are worthy of love and respect.” – Lorri Faye

818. “Our bodies are our garden to which our wills are gardeners.”

819. “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”— Maya Angelou

820. “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.”

821. “You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you’re around people. It’s hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That’s what it’s for.”— India Arie

822. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” — Mark Twain

823. “When the body forces you to STOP it's saying, hey buddy, you've gone too far.”

824. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare

825. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”— Malcolm S. Forbes

826. “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.”

827. “Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.” -St. Augustine

828. “Sometimes religion gets in the way of God.” – Bono

829. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. – Maya Angelou

830. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

831. “Until you get comfortable being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.” – Mandy Hales

832. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”— C.S. Lewis

833. “As a therapist who specializes in treating trauma, it is extremely important that I take care of myself so that I can continue to effectively serve those who are in need of help,” says Janika Joyner, licensed clinical social worker, owner of Higher Elevation Psychosocial Services in Chesapeake, Virginia, for whom this quote is a mantra. “Most helping professionals are genuinely concerned with the well-being of others and tend to focus on ensuring that everyone else is okay. I say that by taking care of myself and being replenished I am still showing concern for those that I serve.” (Learn how to make self-care a health priority through the dimensions of wellness.)

834. “She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.” – Nicole Lyons

835. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” — Sandra Bierig

836. “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

837. “Many of us follow the commandment 'Love One Another.' When it relates to caregiving, we must love one another with boundaries. We must acknowledge that we are included in the 'Love One Another.”

838. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

839. “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

840. “Bath time is a ritual! I have to soak for at least half an hour. If I had time, I could be in that bath for three hours.” – Emilia Clarke

841. “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.” – Louis L’Amour

842. “Be you, love you. All ways, always.” ― Alexandra Elle

843. “Do anything, but let it produce joy.” – Walt Whitman

844. “Your soul will never be fully nourished by anyone’s love but your own.” – Dominee

845. “We both were traveling for our own self care and to feed our wandering souls…existing in other places so that we could remember who we were and then come home to ourselves.” ― Candy Leigh

846. Cancelling plans is okay. Staying home to cook is okay. Disappearing for a bit to get your life together is okay. Resurfacing 10 years later in a foreign country with a new name is okay. We call it ‘self care’. – Unknown

847. 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

848. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes

849. “How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live ’em.”

850. “Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” – Alison Malee

851. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S Burroughs

852. “Prioritise self-care & incorporate a MINIMUM of 60 mins 'ME TIME' into your daily routine.

853. 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 Brow

854. “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”— Anna Quindlen

855. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” — Audre Lorde

856. Conception is a blessed event.

857. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma

858. “I love you but I got to love me more.”― Peggi Speers

859. Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to? - Author: Dada Bhagwan

860. “Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” — Audre Lorde

861. Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music. – Mac Anderson

862. “Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.”

863. 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

864. “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.”

865. “To do: stop being so hard on myself.” – Unknown

866. “Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

867. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” — Brené Brown

868. “Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.”— Amy Ippoliti

869. To care for others is called humanity. - Author: Dada Bhagwan

870. “My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.”

871. “There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self”

872. “No woman can control her destiny if she doesn’t give to herself as much as she gives of herself.” — Suze Orman

873. When all hope is gone and your back is against the wall, 'Pray.'

874. “Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.” – Brené Brown

875. “Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.”

876. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”― Ovid

877. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”

878. “Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?”― Nikki Rowe

879. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Unknown

880. “When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.”― Sanober Khan

881. “Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”

882. “Regardless of how anyone else feels about me, I am going to choose to love myself today.” – Unknown

883. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder

884. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

885. My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important. – Frances Hodgson Burnett

886. “Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.”— Joel Osteen

887. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”

888. “Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won’t rain forever.” – Amy Poehler

889. “It’s more than a bath; it’s a transformative experience. You’re searching for buoyancy in the soul, and spring in your step.”

890. “If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?”

891. Your breathing is your greatest friend. Return to it in all your troubles and you’ll find comfort and guidance. – Unknown

892. “How we care for ourselves gives our brain messages that shape our self-worth so we must care for ourselves in every way, every day.”

893. “Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” — Hermann Hesse

894. Put yourself at the top of your to-do list every day and the rest will fall into place. – Unknown

895. Be bold or italic, but never regular. – Unknown

896. “Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

897. How to not be impatient or careless with the feelings of people I love.

898. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”— Sandra Bierig

899. “You are what you believe yourself to be.” – Paulo Coelho

900. “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.”—Wayne Dyer