#Self Care Quotes

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

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”

“Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.”

“Tend to your vital heart, and all that you worry about will be solved.”

“Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.”

“The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.”

“If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.”

“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.”

“Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head.Raise the rent and kick them out.”

“You can get old pretty young if you don'ttake care of yourself.”

“You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive.”

“We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.”

“You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.”

“Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can.”

“I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.”

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird.”

“I prime my mind. I wake up every morning and say, "Look, if you don't have 10 minutes for yourself, you don't have a life." I take 10 minutes.”

“Think of your mind, your emotions, and your spirit as the ultimate garden. The way to ensure a bountiful, nourishing harvest is to plant seeds like love, warmth, and appreciation, instead of seeds like disappointment, anger, and fear.”

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

“Unless you feed your mind, those suffering states will take over.”

“Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.”

“Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health.”

“Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.”

“Why not make cheerfulness, outrageousness, playfulness a new priority for yourself? Make feeling good your expectation. You don't have to have a reason to feel good - you're alive; you can feel good for no reason at all!”

“Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.”

“The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.”

“Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.”

“I stopped reading articles about myself. Even if it's not bad, I think actively caring about people's daily perception of you makes you second-guess everything. I am very happily not paranoid right now.”

“We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.”

“At some point you have to forget about grudges because they only hurt.”

“To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.”

“I drink a lot of water.”

“You can take care of your body, and it will low-key show you respect in turn.”

“Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.”

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.”

“Nothing very new. By taking good care of yourselves you are of service to me and my family as well as yourselves, no matter what you do, even if you don't think so at present. But if you neglect yourselves and are unwilling to live, as though following tracks, in accordance with what we now say and have said in the past too, then no matter how much or how seriously you agree with me at present you will accomplish next to nothing.”

“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”

“We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.”

“Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.”

“No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training”

“No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.”

“Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.”

“Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.”

“We often need to be refreshed.”

“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.”

“A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.”

“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.”

“A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”

“You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.”