"Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge."
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"I don't have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating."
"One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person."
"Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening."
"We have never seen health as a right. It has been conceived as a privilege, available only to those who can afford it. This is the real reason the American health care system is in such a scandalous state."
"Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself."
"You are the most important part of the family. Take care of yourself first. Then you'll be able to take care of everyone else even better."
"Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back."
"It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life."
"Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself."
"What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow."
"One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of."
"Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in."
"Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves."
"If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets."
"I got back into the position of taking care of my husband, which is what I'd learned that I couldn't really do: you can love and make things okay to a certain extent, but you can't fix. I didn't quite learn that until the kayaking incident. It became so clear then."
"If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self."
"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it."
"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
"I am always being asked to gain or lose weight, but I am at a point now where I don't care anymore. I love my body, I love my super-hourglass shape and I love showing it off."