Self-Nurturing Quotes

Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.

Taking care of yourself is the most important thing.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: 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. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.

It's not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

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

The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.

I take great care of myself by carefully shutting myself away.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Let your body take care of you.

Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.

Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Are you balanced? Do you share your time, your energy, your life, as much with yourself as you do with those around you?. . . . Know your limits. You are one of the most important people you need to look after and love. Balance your time, your energy, your life with those around you. You'll be able to give more freely and joyfully as a result, and you'll be more open to the gifts of the universe. It's not wrong to give to others. But it's okay to say yes to ourselves, too.