Quotes About Caring For Myself

#1. Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde

#2. I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

Audre Lorde

#3. Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

Christine Morgan

#4. By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

Albert Ellis

#5. The rest of my life I will spend in unconditional loving and caring.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.

Jon Krakauer

#7. It's what we wrestle with every single day. The intersection of comfort, danger, and safety. The balancing act between vulnerability and shame. The opportunity (or the risk) to do art. The willingness to take responsibility for caring enough to make a difference and to have a point of view.

Seth Godin

#8. My truest desire is fellowship with good friends, the love of a caring family, and a close relationship with God.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#9. While "caring about" conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, "caring for" is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it.

Geneva Gay

#10. Good people can make mistakes. It doesn't mean you stop caring about them. (Clarke)

Kass Morgan

#11. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all.

Morrie Schwartz.

#12. When we stop believing the world can become a better place, when we stop caring about the lives and conditions of others, we lose a part of ourselves.

Erwin McManus

#13. But codependency is inappropriate, over-the-top loyalty, caring and supportiveness.

David Stafford

#14. In solitude I get rid of my scaffolding ...
Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God's even greater mercy that their life itself becomes ministry.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#15. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?

Charlie Munger

#16. We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts ... We can never be too generous or too kind.

Marc Bekoff

#17. I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.

Tyler Perry

#18. I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Vincent Van Gogh

#19. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. I find myself wishing that I could work that magic for her. That I could bring the smile back to her face. But I slap at those thoughts as if they were mosquitoes. What am I doing, caring so much about my best friend's love? I deny my feelings for her because they shouldn't exist.

Amy Plum

#21. People are becoming more environmentally aware and caring more for animals and really wanting to improve their health.

Heather Mills

#22. I, myself, sank into that abysmal pit of feeling utterly worthless, useless and burdensome. Caring for an animal, especially one that's been rescued, can help return people to a sense of being needed and useful.

Ken Wahl

#23. Today, I will not wait for others to see and care; I will take responsibility for being aware of my pain and problems, and caring about myself.

Melody Beattie

#24. You're always caring about strays and outcasts among us, myself included. You really are a very odd girl, you know; so little sense of what is good for you.

Rachel Caine

#25. Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information that I wouldn't have otherwise gotten. I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.'

Sandra Lee

#26. I hate it when you call me, Melody," she said softly. "It hurts. It hurts when you pull away from me. Everything you said before, it hurt me. I hate you for saying them, and I hate myself for caring. I hate more than anything that I ... that it's so hard for me to say how much I love you.

J.J. McAvoy

#27. What were you keeping me for, if not to use against your enemies?" His gaze softened. "Once, yes. Now I find myself in the alarming situation of fearing I may lose you again and caring.

Pippa DaCosta

#28. It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me
it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

Cassandra Clare

#29. Every once in awhile I like to play dark ladies, crazy ladies, but most often I look for characters that are strong, intelligent, caring - usually earth women, because that's basically how I see myself.

Erin Gray

#30. It's not a sin! Caring for your friends feelings is not a sin! If you disappear, then Aries, myself, and everyone here will be filled with sadness! You won't be repenting your sin that way!

Hiro Mashima

#31. I, the infirm, find myself caring for the sorrows and fears of the well.

Russ Ramsey

#32. The thought of hurting him ripped me apart. Ripped me so totally, that I knew, I cared more for him than I did myself.

Samantha Young

#33. As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

Indra Nooyi

#34. I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

Gregory Maguire

#35. It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

Shakira

#36. I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

Lisa Kleypas

#37. What we do is inherently self-centered and sort of narcissistic. It's hard to really be thinking about myself all of the time when I have a dog who needs me to be caring for him twenty-four seven.

Bitsie Tulloch

#38. I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#39. But I do care. I hate myself for it, but I can't fight this desperate need to try. Try to fit in. Try to make this school experience different than all the previous ones.

Erin Watt

#40. Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

Mahbod Seraji

#41. As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

Pythagoras

#42. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#43. Caring is the essence of nursing.

Jean Watson

#44. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Vikrmn

#46. I had to cope with her right from when I was little, I looked after her and you.

Jacqueline Wilson

#47. Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her for the future.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#48. Nothing can wear you out like caring about people

S.E. Hinton

#49. I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.

Jonathan Evison

#50. DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood women sucked their teeth as she walked by. Her crispy hair twinkled in the summer sun as her big proud stomach moved her on down the block while I watched, not caring whether or not she was a poem.

Audre Lorde

#51. Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out.

Cynthia Ruchti

#52. The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

#53. It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

Norman Lear

#54. A lot of people say I'm not very friendly, that I'm cold. But I'm just the opposite. I live a very simple life. I'm a normal person, very sensitive, very caring about those around me.

Justine Henin

#55. I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

David Levithan

#56. I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos.

Lady Gaga

#57. Not caring more about what other people think than what you think. That's freedom.

Demi Moore

#58. Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is a universal, nondiscriminating feeling of caring and connectedness.

Jack Kornfield

#59. Even if you can't prevent another's sorrow, caring will lessen it.

Frank A. Clark

#60. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'

Sharon Salzberg

#61. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.

Ellen J. Barrier

#62. When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and melancholy and just like sit quietly by the window sighing or just lying around. A state of not caring about anything. A kind of blue kind of peaceful state.

David Foster Wallace

#63. Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.

Mark Buchanan

#64. In Actual
Human Rights are
"caring" for Humans left on the planet

Haider Ali

#65. But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

Dean Koontz

#66. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#67. The anesthetizing against caring really threw me for a loop. I was seeing it with 15-year-olds. It was how they were starting their intimate lives. It alarmed me.

Peggy Orenstein

#68. The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

James Hilton

#69. Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.

Abeba Habtu

#70. Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

Richard Paul Evans

#71. Everyone in the world has lost someone they care for. That doesn't mean you stop caring.

Hilary Thompson

#72. To me, the writer's main job is to just make the story unscroll in such a way that the reader is snared - she's right there, seeing things happen and caring about them. And if you dedicate yourself to this job, the meanings more or less take care of themselves. That's the theory, anyway.

George Saunders

#73. It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring is worse.

Amber Argyle

#74. I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

Portia De Rossi

#75. She swabbed arms that kept bleeding. She removed so many pieces of shrapnel she felt she'd transported a ton of metal out of the huge body of the human that she was caring for while the army travelled north.

Michael Ondaatje

#76. As we respond with caring and vision to all work, we develop our capacity to respond fully to all of life. Every action generates positive energy which can be shared with others.

Tarthang Tulku

#77. It is hard to tell whether he's being honest or following the high school commandment of Thou shalt not show thy uncoolness by openly caring about something, which I have never been good at.

Anna Breslaw

#78. I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Will Rogers