Self-care quotes and captions reflect the increased importance of this topic.
The world we live in today can be incredibly draining and take its toll on our mental health. While it is important to give back and help others, we must make sure that we are taking care of ourselves first — whether that means eating right, exercising, or simply taking time for ourselves.
Many people struggle with self-care, so we’re sharing these quotes and captions to remind you of its importance.
Short Self-Care Quotes
Grab a coffee. Journal your intentions. Get to work. Create miracles.
Elyse Santilli
As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.
Akiroq Brost
Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.
Nikki Rowe
In a world of self-optimization, self-care is self-defense.
Jan Lenarz
When confused or overwhelmed, choose YOU.
Izey Victoria Odiase
Honestly, self-care is not fluffy. It’s something we should take seriously.
Kris Carr
Be you, love you. All ways, always.
Alexandra Elle
Moving on is self-care, which is intelligence.
Maxime Lagacé
Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.
Cecilia Tran
Part of courage is simple consistency.
Peggy Noonan
Funny Self-Care Quotes
You cannot breathe life into someone refusing to inhale.
Colleen Songs
Be good to your skin. You’ll wear it every day for the rest of your life.
Renee Rouleau
One of the greatest burdens of leadership is embracing the need for self-care with grace.
Guy T. Simpson Jr.
It be funny how the universe be blocking all your shots because you in the wrong game.
Niedria Kenny
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
Unknown
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence; it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde
If it costs you your peace of mind, you’ve overpaid.
Rigel J. Dawson
Resting is a part of the process, even if it’s not a part of the plan.
Carley Schweet
If someone doesn’t care about himself, you begin to lose interest after a while.
Kem Nunn
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.
A.A. Milne
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Inspirational Self-Care Quotes
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.
Tia Walker
The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people. The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.
Warren Buffett
Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I’ve climbed, for the battles I’ve won, and for the examples I’ve set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me.
Heather James
Loving yourself is scary. That’s why people don’t do it. To love yourself is to make eye contact with yourself- stare a measureless distance into your soul and embrace the journey to and through pillars of emotions and resting on the cushions of the heart. Imagine that. Then make it a reality.
Niedria D. Kenny
Mental Health Care Quotes
If you think you can love and be loved, practice it on yourself.
Darnell Lamont Walker
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Self-care is your fuel. Whatever the road ahead or the path you’ve taken, self-care is what keeps your motor running and your wheels turning.
Melissa Steginus
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Eckhart Tolle
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
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
Buddha
Best Self-Care Quotes
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, and breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.
Akiroq Brost
It is possible to set boundaries provided that you prioritize your own self-care. To protect ourselves in their presence, we first have to understand the way they think and manipulate. This will give us insight into their agendas, their exploitative ways of approaching the world, and the essential tools needed to safely exit interactions, friendships, and relationships with them.
Shahida Arabi
If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.
Seanan McGuire
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
Enlightening Self-Care Quotes
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
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. Anytime we can listen to true self and give the care it requires, we do it not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.
Parker Palmer
Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana
Good Self-Care Quotations
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
All animals must have the basic circuitry for self-care, or they will fail to survive long enough to reproduce. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, the range of myself was extended to include my babies.
Patricia S. Churchland
Self-care has become a new priority – the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.
Frances Ryan
Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.
Beth Behrs
If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are a one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience the wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.
Victoria Moran
Personal Care Insights
One person’s self-care isn’t necessarily another’s—there is going to be a lot of individuality.
Gail Saltz, M.D.
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged, damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.
May Sarton
Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
Tina Fey
Mental Health Quotes
You must be gentle with yourself every day anew so that the harshness of this world does not seep into your soul.
Jan Lenarz
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.
Stephen Covey
The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing, and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.
Vironika Tugaleva
Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel van der Kolk
Holistic Self-Care Quotes
Self-care means considering yourself a worthwhile person and presenting yourself as valuable, capable, and deserving. In other words, self-care seeks to redress an imbalance that develops when you don’t take proper care of yourself, whether by inattention or by choice.
Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.
Katrina Mayer
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.
Tyra Banks
The body can endure practically anything—pain, fatigue, you name it—but it’s the mind that matters.
Dave Pelzer
Motivational Self Care Quotes
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
Sandra Bierig
The more you understand your value, the more you’ll distance and detach from the things that don’t.
Henry Joseph-Grant
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right there.
Venus Williams
It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experience disappointment from the way your family or others treat you, that’s the time to take special care of yourself. What are you doing to nurture yourself? What are you doing to protect yourself? Find a healthy way to express your pain.
Christina Enevoldsen
Prioritize self-care & incorporate a minimum of 60 mins’ me time’ into your daily routine. Yes, there are enough hours in the day. No excuses.
Miya Yamanouchi
Health Care Quotations
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller
You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you’re around people. It’s hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That’s what it’s for.
India Arie
Self-love requires self-care; caring for ourselves focuses on our well-being in mind. We are giving ourselves the same forgiveness, kindness, and compassion we give to others.
Jesus Apolinaris
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Anna Quindlen
Self Care Quotes for Moms
Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.
Matt Haig
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron
Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.
Francis de Sales
There is a part of Wonder Woman inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, and caring for our children and companions and loved ones.
Lynda Carter
Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Spend time on other important areas of your life, like self-care, family, and friends, that you may have neglected during your goal-striving efforts.
Noel Brick
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they’re rich and important.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beauty Self-Care Quotes
Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
Jonathan Van Ness
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
Dolores del Rio
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
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Alicia Machado
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin.
Shanina Shaik
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
The self-care quotes have a variety of uses for social media, signing, and inspiration. Now, check out these captions.
I’m staying home today. I have mood poisoning.
This looks like a ‘no, thanks’ to me.
I do a thing called ‘what I want.’
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart into it, take yourself out of it.
If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
Know your worth, and then make sure to add tax.
Deep breaths are like little love notes to your body.
Need some new haters because the old once became my fan.
I am not an early bird or night owl; I’m some sort of permanently exhausted pigeon.
If someone holds you then leave his hand.
They laugh at me because I’m different: I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
Get in, loser; we’re healing and falling in love with ourselves again.
You can’t make everyone happy. You aren’t tacos.
When you realize your self-worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts.
It’s not your job to like me — that’s my job!
The bags under my eyes are Prada.
Self-Aid Captions
A reminder that Winnie the Pooh wore a crop top with no pants & ate his fave food & loved himself so you can too.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Not everybody has to love me. I can’t force you to have good taste.
Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness yet become something beautiful.
And so, she decided to start living the life she’d imagined.
Be a pineapple: stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.
When something goes wrong in your life, yell ‘Plot twist!’ and move on.
Self-Care Captions for Instagram
I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.
Self-discipline is self-caring.
Stop shrinking to fit places you’ve outgrown.
In a society that profits from self-doubt, loving yourself is an act of rebellion. Be a rebel.
Talk to yourself like someone you love.
If it makes you happy, it doesn’t have to make sense to everyone else.
A man can’t be comfortable without his own approval.
Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.
Be your own friend. It will be the greatest friendship ever.
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Today’s a good day to start making a difference in your own life.
If you wouldn’t say it to a friend, don’t say it to yourself.
You were born to be real, not to be perfect.
Self-care is how you treat yourself.
Healing is not linear.
Personal Maintenance Captions
Self-care sometimes is doing the things that will make your next 2 hours difficult, but your next 10 years easier.
Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives.
Practice self-rescue first before you ‘help’ someone else.
My first relationship is with myself.
Be gentle to yourself because you are the better version of yourself.
Self-care means thinking about yourself, loving yourself, and worrying about yourself.
Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.
By Emily Clarke
Emily writes about fitness, mental health, and personal care.
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The self-care quotes have a variety of uses for social media, signing, and inspiration. Now, check out these captions.
I’m staying home today. I have mood poisoning.
This looks like a ‘no, thanks’ to me.
I do a thing called ‘what I want.’
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart into it, take yourself out of it.
If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
Know your worth, and then make sure to add tax.
Deep breaths are like little love notes to your body.
Need some new haters because the old once became my fan.
I am not an early bird or night owl; I’m some sort of permanently exhausted pigeon.
If someone holds you then leave his hand.
They laugh at me because I’m different: I laugh at them because they’re all the same.
Get in, loser; we’re healing and falling in love with ourselves again.
You can’t make everyone happy. You aren’t tacos.
When you realize your self-worth, you’ll stop giving people discounts.
It’s not your job to like me — that’s my job!
The bags under my eyes are Prada.
Self-Aid Captions
A reminder that Winnie the Pooh wore a crop top with no pants & ate his fave food & loved himself so you can too.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Not everybody has to love me. I can’t force you to have good taste.
Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness yet become something beautiful.
And so, she decided to start living the life she’d imagined.
Be a pineapple: stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.
When something goes wrong in your life, yell ‘Plot twist!’ and move on.
Self-Care Captions for Instagram
I’m too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener.
Self-discipline is self-caring.
Stop shrinking to fit places you’ve outgrown.
In a society that profits from self-doubt, loving yourself is an act of rebellion. Be a rebel.
Talk to yourself like someone you love.
If it makes you happy, it doesn’t have to make sense to everyone else.
A man can’t be comfortable without his own approval.
Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.
Be your own friend. It will be the greatest friendship ever.
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
Today’s a good day to start making a difference in your own life.
If you wouldn’t say it to a friend, don’t say it to yourself.
You were born to be real, not to be perfect.
Self-care is how you treat yourself.
Healing is not linear.
Personal Maintenance Captions
Self-care sometimes is doing the things that will make your next 2 hours difficult, but your next 10 years easier.
Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives.
Practice self-rescue first before you ‘help’ someone else.
My first relationship is with myself.
Be gentle to yourself because you are the better version of yourself.
Self-care means thinking about yourself, loving yourself, and worrying about yourself.
Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.
By Emily Clarke
Emily writes about fitness, mental health, and personal care.
Etcetera
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