100 Self-Care Quotes for Daily Inspiration

We can recharge our batteries and make a positive impact on our families and communities when we practice self-care.

In today’s busy world, it’s difficult to find time for ourselves. There are very few quiet moments in today’s world. Between caring for children, working full-time, and watching the news, there is little time to relax. Rest and rejuvenation are important, but we often forget about them until it is too late. We are finally forced to take a rest by life when we’re exhausted and overwhelmed. What if we were able to gain control of our schedule and find peace?

Read these quotes about self-care. These quotes will fill your heart with inspiration and encourage you to change your mind-set. You may need some quotes to help you enter the new year in a positive mindset. They could even change your life.

Self-Care Quotes About Emotion

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“That which is left unresolved from our childhood will land on the lap of our romantic partnerships + our parenting.” – Inspired by Dr. Erika Velez

“When children have big feelings, and we use toys, treats, or activities to distract them from what’s upsetting, we show them how to escape uncomfortable feelings rather than how to cope and move through them.” – @aparentingpath

“Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill the emptiness inside.” – Jean Kilbourne

“If we never let children go through the full wave of emotions when the emotion hits, there won’t be the assurance that it will pass. That is scary.” – Krysten Taprell

“Numbing is a very human defense mechanism. It is a disconnect to protect ourselves from what has been emotionally and relationally too vulnerable, overwhelming, hurtful, or unsafe.” – Inspired by Lelia Schott

“Research on emotional suppression shows that when emotions are pushed aside or ignored, they get stronger. Psychologists call this amplification.” – Inspired by Susan David

“Yes, your emotions are valid, but that is not permission to react to those emotions in any way you feel like it. We are all connected, and words and actions are impactful, so use them responsibly.” – Inspired by Dr. Caroline Leaf

“A lot of our explosive emotional reactions aren’t actually a response to the present moment. They’re a build-up of all the times we were in a similar dynamic and did not stand up for ourselves, use our voices, or express our emotions.” – @haileypaigemagee

“Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.” – Drake Taylor

“It’s not about managing your emotions. It’s about managing your reaction to your emotions.” – Inspired by Yung Pueblo

“Identifying the pattern is awareness; choosing not to repeat the cycle is growth.” – Billy Chapata

“We cannot be more connected to others than we are to ourselves.” – Brene Brown

“Our ability to tolerate anger, frustration, and behavior we don’t like is a skill we can strengthen by investigating the source of our discomfort.” – Lori Petro

“Practicing how to turn toward ourselves with curious compassion when we are having a hard time is a big step towards softening our reactions.” – Lelia Schott

“Look at yourself through the lens of compassion and understanding. Only then growth is possible.” – Anna Aslanian, LMFT

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

“Those who think they have no time for healthy eating, will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Unknown

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake.” – Unknown

“Healthy habits are learned the same way as unhealthy ones, practice.” – Wayne Dyer

“Fall in love with taking care of your mind, body, and spirit.” – Unknown

“You have to get to the point where you love your body and yourself enough to take care of it.” – Unknown

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.” – Gautama Buddha

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

“If your body’s not right, the rest of your day will go all wrong. Take care of yourself.” – V.L. Allineare

“A healthy outside starts with a healthy inside.” – Robert Urich

“To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha

“If you think the pursuit of health is expensive, try illness.” – Lee Swanson

“Health is not about the weight you lose but the life that you gain.” – Dr. Josh Axe

“Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.” – Menander

“The groundwork for all happiness is good health.” – Leigh Hunt

“If you feel burnout setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.” – Dalai Lama

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

“People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” – George Bernard Shaw

“My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.” – Ashton Eaton

“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close

“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” – Hans Selye

“All stress, anxiety, depression, is caused when we ignore who we are, and start living to please others.” – Paulo Coelho

“Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.” – Mireille Guiliana

“Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” – Mariska Hargitay

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” – Fred Rogers

“Take a deep breath… Inhale peace. Exhale happiness.” – A.d. Posey

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

Self-Care Quotes About Compassion

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

“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

“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

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

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

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” – Bell Hooks

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli

“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at.” – Pema Chodron

“You have peace,” the old woman said, “when you make it with yourself.” – Mitch Albom

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

“Being human is not about being any one particular way; it is about being as life creates you-with your own particular strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges, quirks and oddities.” – Kristin Neff

“Painful feelings are, by their very nature, temporary. They will weaken over time as long as we don’t prolong or amplify them through resistance or avoidance. The only way to eventually free ourselves from debilitating pain, therefore, is to be with it as it is. The only way out is through.” – Kristin Neff

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” – Joseph Campbell

“This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.” – Kristin Neff

“Self-care is not selfish or self-indulgent. We cannot nurture others from a dry well. We need to take care of our own needs first, so that we can give from our surplus, our abundance. When we nurture others from a place of fullness, we feel renewed instead of taken advantage of.” – Jennifer Louden

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“It is a beautiful experience being with ourselves at a level of complete acceptance. When that begins to happen, when you give up resistance and needing to be perfect, a peace will come over you as you have never known.” – Ruth Fishel

“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama

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

“It’s like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Talk to yourself as you would someone you love.” – Brene Brown

“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.” – Vironika Tugaleva

“To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” – e.e. cummings

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

“Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.” – Sharon Salzberg

“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.” – Christopher Germer

“The only thing that was ever wrong with me was my belief that there was something wrong with me. I quit spending my life trying to control myself and began to trust myself. We only control what we don’t trust. We can either control ourselves or love ourselves, but we can’t do both.” – Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The capacity for compassion and response grows slowly from cultivation and practice.” – Stephanie Kaza, The Attentive Heart

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

“We don’t make lasting, constructive changes in our lives because of shame or self-loathing. We finally decide we were made for something more. This might come to us as a very small sense of knowing, but it’s a change in perspective, and it is the soil for new life.” – Leeana Tankersley

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“Where we think we need more self-discipline, we usually need more self-love.” – Tara Mohr

“Loving yourself is having reverence ultimately for life. …It’s a deep gratitude for the life you have.” – Brendon Burchard

“When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others.” – Eda LeShan

“Wherever we’re trying to go, we do not bully ourselves there. We believe ourselves there.” – Leeana Tankersley

“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.” – Robert Holden

“True love of self is not narcissistic, nor is it even self-centered. Those traits are nothing but the contrived window-dressing of self-hate. True love of self is simple acceptance. Without it, you can never be happy, nor even fully healthy. Without it, you can never love others.” – Dharma Singh Khalsa M.D. and Cameron Stauth

“I learned…that sometimes there is just very little in life we can control. But one thing we can always control is how we treat ourselves. And that one thing can change everything.” – Leanna Tankersley

“You know quite well, deep within you,

that there is only a single magic,

a single power,

a single salvation…

and that is called loving.” – Hermann Hesse

“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

“What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Self-Care Quotes About Time

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

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

“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 Brownn

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

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

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Unknown

“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

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

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

“We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.” – John F. Kennedy

“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

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff

“Time is what we want most but what we use worst.” – William Penn

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

” ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.”  – Timothy Ferriss

“Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.” – Bil Keane

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

“Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball

“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

“If you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralised and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.” – Dalai Lama

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

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

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

“Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.” – William Shakespeare

“The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.” – Finley Peter Dunne

“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews

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

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

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

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen

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

Self-Care Quotes About Health

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

“It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.” – Anne LaMott

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

“Everybody is different, and every body is different.” – Beverly Diehl

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

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

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” – Voltaire

“You don’t have to be happy every second to be happy overall.” – Unknown

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“True happiness comes from within.” – Unknown

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

“If you want to be happy, be.”  – Leo Tolstoy

“The groundwork for all happiness is health.” – Leigh Hunt

“Stop chasing after the wrong things and start chasing after the right things.” – Unknown

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Be the reason someone smiles today.” – Unknown

“Laughing decreases blood pressure and increases blood flow.” – Unknown

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb

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

“If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.” – Deepak Chopra

“Self-care isn’t selfish; it’s essential to your survival and your sanity.” – Anonymous

“Even though you have learned the skill of running on empty, now is the time to learn the art of breathing deep all over again,” – Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living

“You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” – Eleanor Brownn

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

“If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?” -Maya Angelou

“Sometimes, when we’re feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love. Then, for me, self-love is like, ‘Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?’ Not: A’m I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?’ But: ‘Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?’ And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good,”  – Kerry Washington

“Many of us, we have a hard time putting ourselves on our own priority list, let alone at the top of it. And that’s what happens when it comes to our health as women. We are so busy giving and doing for others that we almost feel guilty to take that time out for ourselves.” – Michelle Obama

“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.” – Parker Palmer

“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

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

“Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.” – Greg Anderson

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

“The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order.” – Henry Ward Beecher

“Wellness encompasses a healthy body, a sound mind, and a tranquil spirit. Enjoy the journey as you strive for wellness.” – Laurette Gagnon Beaulieu

“Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.” – Mark Halperin

“Take care of yourself, be healthy, and always believe you can be successful in anything you truly want.” – Alessandra Ambrosio

“Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine, and good water.” – Flying Hawk

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker than a germ.” – John Steinbeck

“The mind and body are not separate. What affects one, affects the other.” – Unknown

“You are the only one who can limit your greatness.” – Unknown

“The concept of total wellness recognizes that our every thought, word, and behavior affects our greater health and well-being. And we, in turn, are affected not only emotionally but also physically and spiritually.” – Greg Anderson

“Your body holds deep wisdom. Trust in it. Learn from it. Nourish it. Watch your life transform and be healthy.” – Bella Bleue

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

Give your love to all, trust in the team to which you are joined, and do not do wrong to others for your own self-gratification.”- Byron Pulsifer

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”- George Washington

Inspirational Self-Care Quotes

“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

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

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

“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

“The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.” – bell hooks

“It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.” – Faith Hill

“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

“Faux self-care is a method – in the moment, going for a run might improve your mood, but it does nothing to change the circumstances in your life that led you to feel drained, energy-less, or down. On the other hand, the work of real self-care is about going deeper and identifying the core principles to guide decision-making. When you apply these principles to your life, you don’t just feel relief in the moment, you design a system of living that prevents the problems from coming up in the first place.” – Pooja Lakshmin, Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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.

“It’s important to have a balance in your life between work and play.” – Bobby Flay

“You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” – Wayne Dyer

“Life should be touched, not strangled. Let it happen at times and at others move forward with it.” – Ray Bradbury

“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” – Walter Anderson

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“It’s all about finding the calm in the chaos.” – Donna Karan

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret to getting started is breaking your overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

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

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

“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

On Self Care Allowing You To Help Others

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

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.” – The Dalai Lama

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor

“Acknowledge, accept, and honour that you deserve your own deepest compassion and love.” – Nanette Mathews

“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

“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Golas

“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

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

Self-care is a very important thing to do. Self-care is not just about “bubble baths and pedicures” (although they are fun too). It’s about a thoughtful, meaningful self-care that helps us. We can learn more about ourselves, recharge our batteries and make a positive impact on our families and communities when we practice self-care.