579 Quotes About Self-care

When your stress levels are up, you should spend more time taking care of yourself.

I love you but I got to love me more.

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

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.

Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.

I could, like some of the meat we were cooking, relax into it, clear my mind of competing desires & give myself over to the work... This time became a kind of luxury. And that is precisely when I began to truly enjoy the work of cooking.

It is only when we feel deprived that we resent giving to others. Self-care does not mean you stop caring about others; it just means you start caring more about you. Start thinking about yourself more and others less. Since you have a choice between taking care of someone else, or giving to yourself, try choosing yourself sometimes.

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

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.