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Self-care Quotes
"Know your limit and circle of influence, you are not called to meet the needs of everyone."
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"Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others."
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"You can't do everything for everyone, not even for yourself. It's okay to ask for help when you need it."
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"I have a pretty good handle on my anxiety. I basically treat myself like a nervy horse: lots of exercise, lots of sleep, lots of interesting work to keep my mind occupied, and generally avoiding being ridden hard by strangers."
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"If you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
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"To know what you want, you need to know yourself."
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"There is no downside to taking care of yourself."
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"Don't go into a relationship with an empty heart, and expect your partner to complete it for you. No heart can ever be complete without the presence of unconditional self-love."
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"Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you."
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"Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void."
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"Be selfish and take good care of you first. When you are your best, you can best help others."
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"It is so easy to forget the importance of emotional self-care. Especially when we have obvious symptoms of mental and physical illness. Emotions seem irrelevant, unrelated, invisible. But when we look at a giant oak tree, the seed that bore it is invisible too."
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"Talk to yourself like a cherished friend. Treat yourself with love and care. You are perfect, just as you are."
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"A #loveselfie isn't a picture or a status update. It's an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It's being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it."
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"When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me."
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"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others."
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"You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them."
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"Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself."
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"There is no quick fix-all procedure to heal your insecurities. Like any relationship, the relationship with yourself must be built and re-built one kind, loving conversation at a time."
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"Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose."
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"Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart."
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"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you."
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"Your healthy love for yourself is sexy!"
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"I respect myself and receive joy form all directions."
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"Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough."
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"Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future."
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"Before label yourself and before you decide that there is something irreparably wrong with your thoughts or emotions, ask yourself: "Do I have a caring, unconditionally loving best friend in myself? If the answer is "No, then you will not find the solution to your suffering until you address this serious, life-threatening absence of self-compassion. Self-love is not a dinner mint. Self-love matters. Self-love saves lives."
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"Kindness always works with the most important person - YOU. Be kind for you, not others."
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"Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!"
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"I love my life not because it is full of perfect experiences, but because I solely owe myself unconditional self-love in abundance. So what would be your excuse not to love your life unconditionally?"
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"It's simple; be YOU. If you're not being you, you're being someone else. YOU are not here to be someone else."
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"If you want to look after your shadow, you just have to look after yourself, that will do!"
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"Commit to the lifestyle of investing in you first. It always produces the best return."
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"Self-love is self-care."
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"No one benefits from an empty jar, fill yourself first before pouring out to others."
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