Selected self care quotes

1. How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

2. Spend some time alone every day.

3. I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

4. My struggle to remain healthy is gradually killing me.

5. Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

6. By all means use some time to be alone.

7. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

8. I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

9. What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

10. Don't bring negative to my door.

11. When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

12. Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

13. Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day.

14. For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

15. When you jerk off, you're saying 'Hey, I care about me.'

16. We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery- it recharges by running.

17. No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.

18. It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

19. Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.

20. 'When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.'

21. Convince yourself that everything is alright. 'Cos it already is. ~ 'For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)'

22. And in this moment, I need to be needed With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted 'Cause I love to be loved I love to be loved I love to be loved Yes, I love to be loved.

23. Compassion: 'One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate. However many people do not understand the most critical thing about compassion; that true compassion includes compassion for yourself.'

24. Interviewer: Tell me something about your fake eyelashes. Davey: Fake?! Interviewer: 'Well..I mean...uh..ok'. Davey: 'Here, feel' Interviewer: 'Oh..but..alright, seriously do you have a special person that applies those for you or do you do it by yourself?' Davey: 'I actually have a very special person, he's very dear to my heart, it's me. I spend most of my time with him, he's very hard to deal with'

25. As for the passions and studies of the mind: avoid envy; anxious fears; anger fretting inwards; subtle and knotty inquisitions; joys and exhilarations in excess; sadness not communicated. Entertain hopes; mirth rather than joy; variety of delights, rather than surfeit of them; wonder and admiration, and therefore novelties; studies that fill the mind with splendid and illustrious objects, as histories, fables, and contemplations of nature.

26. I've had the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell'!

27. This hangnail expression . . .

28. This little girl inside me Is retreating to her favourite place. Go into the garden. Go under the ivy, Under the leaves, Away from the party. Go right to the rose. Go right to the white rose (For me.)

29. It is a good life, if I watch myself. Kind of like when I used to diet, but now instead of limiting calories, I will not allow negative self talk. I cut out insults like I cut out carbs and it is hard as hell because I crave self abuse like hot, fresh sourdough bread, but you know you have to be nice to you if you are going to live together.

30. All my friends say I should leave him because he's mean, angry, and abusive. I need to get some new friends.

31. I should have my 'girl citizenship' revoked. I never get facials. I never get my nails done. I'm so busy.

32. Nourish your middle by accepting what cannot be avoided: that's perfection.

33. 'I'm only scarred about the face, breast, chest, neck, and head. Other than that I look fine - a little makeup conceals everything.' (from 'The Gay Model')

34. I've been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.

35. And if you save yourself You will make him happy.

36. Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

37. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

38. Spend some time alone every day.

39. 'People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.' Zig Ziglar

40. Handle gut und anstandig, weniger anderen zu gefallen, eher um deine eigene Achtung nicht zu verscherzen.

41. When a man stops to ponder his physical or moral condition, he generally finds he is ill.

42. You shouldn't be told you're completely irresponsible and be left alone with too much medication. It's too easy to forget. You take a couple of sleeping pills and you wake up in twenty minutes and forget you've taken them. So you take a couple more, and the next thing you know you've taken too many.

43. Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

44. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

45. I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

46. Helping people was one of the two basic things Fat had been told to give up; helping people and taking dope. He had stopped taking dope, but all his energy and enthusiasm were now totally channelled into saving people. Better he had kept on with the dope.

47. There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

48. 'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

49. Don't forget that you're a physical being with a power-plant to take care of and maintain. I'm talking about the bod under the blue gown. I'm not going to say that we're a lazy, overweight society, a fast-food eatin', SUV-ridin', soda-guzzlin', beer-chuggin', TV-watchin', size-XL-wearin', walk-don't-run generation...except I guess I just did.

50. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

51. The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -zen & motorcycle maintenance

52. 'Help me!'