1. “To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying ‘This is who I am’.”
2. “Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.”
3. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
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4. “To me, self-care isn’t really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.”
5. “Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone. Stand up for truth, regardless of who steps on it.”
6. “You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.”
7. “Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.”
8. “I’m not violent, I don’t believe in killing people, but standing up for yourself, speaking out against injustice, is another form of vengeance.”
9. “My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?”
10. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits — anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
11. “Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”
12. “When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”
13. “The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.”
14. “Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he’s standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.”
15. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
16. “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.”
17. “Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.”
18. “Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs – Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?”
19. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”
20. “Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health — body, mind, and spirit.”
21. “Growth is necessary but don’t convince yourself that those past versions of you were worthless. You wouldn’t be here without them.”
22. “You give numerous second chances to the undeserved, but start judging yourself in your very first legitimate failure. Why such discrimination?”
23. “I’m a professional fighter. My game plan is to fight standing up and to fight on the ground.”
24. “And listen to me, what you’ve done here carries power with it, of a different sort. Don’t let Solya take all the credit, and don’t be shy of using it.”
25. “You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breaths and you are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest.”
26. “And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can’t ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won’t stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you’d be surprised that people say, “Can I be of help?”
27. “As I said, if you don’t stand up for yourself, people aren’t going to think that you can stand up for them.”
28. “Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”
29. “If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.”
30. “When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.”
31. “How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we’re not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think?”
32. “Standing up for national anthem doesn’t make you an Indian. Posting flags on social networks doesn’t make you an Indian.”
33. “Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.”
34. “Standing up for yourself doesn’t always involve verbal confrontation. Sometimes it’s about not wasting energy on people who are negative.”
35. “Allow yourself the things you need right now. Whether that’s space, rest, support, or something else, know that you are not a burden for taking care of yourself.”
36. “There’s no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”
37. “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.”
38. “Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.”
39. “If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.”
40. “We’re on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.”
41. “Some days are going to be more of a struggle than others. That is okay and you need to forgive yourself in order to keep going — and growing.”
42. “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.”
43. “People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
44. “If the keeper is standing up, in the fear of getting stumped, the batsman will not try to walk down the wicket to negate the swing.”
45. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
46. “There’s a difference between standing up and telling people what you’re planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.”
47. “Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe.”
48. “Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.”
49. “Wherever you are, try and find something beautiful at any moment. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.”
50. “Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.”
51. “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”
52. “To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
53. “Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world.”
54. “Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.”
55. “Let us be certain of who we want to be. Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.”
56. “Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.”
57. “I can’t tell you if one day I’ll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.”
58. “It’s great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.”
59. “Love isn’t supposed to hurt at all, being with a waste of human DNA is also I waste of time, find someone else who’s worth everything”
60. “But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?”
61. “Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.”
62. “By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty”
63. “If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.”
64. “When you stand up for yourself, you are standing up for everyone who will follow your positive example!”
65. “By taking up space, standing up for ourselves, and reassessing a future with crystal-clear perspectives, we gain clarity and make room for self-care, well-being, and joy.”
66. “A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.”
67. “Don’t let anyone tell you who you are–you have to have a bigger idea of who you are than how society sees you.”
68. “Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.”
69. “Local councils are hostile to large developers and think that, by doing this, they are standing up for the community. But they’re wrong.”
70. “The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
71. “A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.”
72. “Everyone here says in a surprised manner that I have grown… they are so stupid and do not notice that I am standing up straighter!”
73. “Society teaches us to fall in line and be grateful even in times of injustice. It’ll feel almost alien when you start speaking up but standing up for yourself is always the right thing to do.”
74. “It’s really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don’t feel that that’s true”
75. “Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.”
76. “If standing up for yourself burns a bridge or two, then rebuild right over top of the ashes.”
77. “We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.”
78. “I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.”
79. “That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.”
80. “We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.”
81. “You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people’s faithful representative, and the public’s most obedient, very humble servant.”
