50 Self-Care Quotes to Help You Remember Yourself

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You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
Brené Brown
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
The most important relationship in your life is your relationship with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.
Diane von Furstenberg
It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
Faith Hill
Self-care is how you take your power back.
Lalah Delia
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
Taylor Swift
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
Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
You're allowed to assert your needs and take up space. You're allowed to hold onto the truth that who you are is exactly enough.
Daniell Koepke
Self care takes effort. It doesn’t just happen.
James Clear
The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer.
Buddha
If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?
RuPaul
I was told I wasn't good enough, but I just chose not to listen.
Khalid
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.
Katie Reed
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Jack Kornfield
You have your own life, why waste it on focusing on others?
Nitin Namdeo
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa
The challenge is not to be perfect — it is to be whole.
Jane Fonda
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

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Thích Nhất Hạnh
Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.
Tara Stiles
Be the love you always hoped for.
Juansen Dizon
Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana
Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.
Audre Lorde
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
Deborah Day
The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Sydney J. Harris
The good news is that you can free yourself from your mind.
Eckhart Tolle
When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do.
John O’Donohue
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
Acknowledge, accept, and honour that you deserve your own deepest compassion and love.
Nanette Mathews
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 that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.
Mary Lambert
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum
Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first; it means me too.
L.R. Knost
Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.
Vironika Tugaleva
Be you, love you. All ways, always.
Alexandra Elle
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.
Jonathan Van Ness
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
Thaddeus Golas
We need to replace your vicious stress cycle with a vicious cycle of self-care.
Dr. Sara Gottfriedknos
It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.
Donna Karan
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
I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.
Joyce Meyer
When you focus on yourself and love yourself, some relationships have to go
Adrian Michael
Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.
Jackie Viramontez
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Gustav Jung
Self-respect, self-worth, and self-love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.
Rob Liano
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