Quotes About Self-care

You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer

I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

Her sadness was ceaseless, but she kept it quarantined in a governable little quarter of her heart. It was the best she could do.

It was during the war, too, that I learned how to be comfortable sitting alone in a bar or restaurant. For many women, this is a strangely difficult thing to do, but eventually I mastered it. (The trick is to bring a book or newspaper, to ask for the best table nearest to the window, and to order your drink just as soon as you sit down.) Once I got the hang of it, I found that eating alone by the window in a quiert restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures.

You don't need to conduct autopsies on your disasters.

Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away...meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny." - Wayan

people's judgments about you are none of your business.

Autoritativno, poput lije?nice, na prste je nabrojala šest sastavnica pouzdane terapije za slomljeno srce: Vitamin E, mnogo spavati, piti mnogo vode, otputovati daleko od osobe koju si volio, meditirati i objasniti srcu da je to njegova sudbina.

I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

people's judgements about you are none of your business

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

if your life has become a trash compactor, then you are allowed to try to escape that trash compactor, whatever it takes.

in order to let go of the addiction to creative suffering, you must reject the way of the martyr

Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

But the thing about divorcing someone is that you kind of stop listening to all the mean stuff they say about you after a while.)

And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business.

You should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead.

No te disculpes por llorar. Sin sentimientos, no somos más que robots

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey and the Book of Common Prayer." For some people, that's truly enough. For others, more drastic measures are required.

Maybe because they didn't worry too much about me, I didn't worry too much about me, either.

Do I have the right to experience pleasure and peace? If so, what would bring me pleasure and peace?

Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure). Americans don't really know how to do nothing.

there is a profound sense of honor to be found in looking after yourself, and that honor will resonate powerfully in your work; it will make your work stronger.