Top 1200 Self Care Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason, haven't done a good job of taking care of the weak. And we were doing things that render taking care of our youth and taking care of our women and our families impossible, when our lives are taken.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

Fighting with self!! Why not? If we can live in harmony with self, we also have a full right to fight ourselves as well.

Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.

Forget about trying to stabilize the personal sense of Self. It is inherently unstable. See that the Self watches this.

As others have recently suggested, the term 'gamer' is no longer useful as an identity because games are for everyone. These days, even my mom spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on her iPad. So I'll take a cue from my younger self and say I don't care about being a 'gamer,' but I sure do love video games.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

You are wonderful. Valuable. Worthwhile. Lovable. Not because others think so. Self worth comes from only one place: self.

Today I'm committed to take care of your families like I've taken care of mine. I want to make Mexico the best country to live in.

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

For me, for every single job, I don't care if it is a reading, I don't care if it is a guest spot on a TV show, or a film. I always get the heebie jeebies.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

I do care about style. I do care, but I only care about style that serves the subject.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

When the collective mentality of any organization is self and self-preservation first, it's a sure sign of pending doom.

Before you sweat the logistics of focus: ?rst, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning ?ares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.

There's something so remarkable in the intensity of taking care of somebody who can't take care of him or herself. And then watching that little person bloom into adolescence.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience. But if we shift our experience of self-identification - and this is what enlightenment is - from the body-self to the spiritual-self, then we place ourselves under an entirely different set of possibilities and probabilities.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired, but the life she was living, with all its complexities. This was her life, built with care and attention, and it was good.

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

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.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Planned Parenthood has been there for thousands of Maine people. From cancer screenings to crucial reproductive care, there are countless families that rely on their support and care.

Don't clock anybody, let them all clock you, Don't be down with anybody, let them all be down with you. Stay self-managed, self-kept, self-taught, Be your own man; don't be borrowed, don't be bought.

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

To see that people appreciate the work that I put in to make these songs for them, that's what makes me care. I don't care about being Fetty Wap.

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Many of the issues I encountered as acting secretary were not with the quality of medical care but with getting our veterans through the door to reach that care.