Quotes About Self-care

Don't be so easy on yourself, it said.

I was once at a conference of neuroscientists and all-star Buddhist monk meditators, the former studying what the brains of the latter did during meditation. One scientist asked one of the monks whether he ever stops meditating because his knees hurt from all that cross-leggedness. He answered, "Sometimes I'll stop sooner than I planned, but not because it hurts; it's not something I notice. It's as an act of kindness to my knees.

You are dehydrated, I said. The result of alcohol taken in excess. But that is the only way to take it. It is the only way to do a man any good.

duelo es un proceso gradual del corazón, que hay que vivir suavemente y en gracia, con atención y con compasión por nosotros mismos.

Adrina, it is time you mended your own soul. Cry, cry until there are no more tears in you.

Es sólo que yo me pago primero a mí mismo. Incluso antes de pagarle al gobierno.

I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.

I think," said Mrs. Frederick, "that if a person makes up her mind not to have colds she will not have colds.

I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

Don't lose that anger. Just have a little more patience and forgiveness. For yourself as well.

Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up.

You need to hit Monday ready to go ... To do that, you need weekends that rejuvenate you, rather than exhaust or disappoint you. Cross-training makes you a better athlete, and likewise, exercise, volunteer work, and spiritual activities make you a better worker.

Getting adequate sleep is a sign that the world doesn't need your attention for seven to nine hours each day. It keeps spinning as usual in its orbit. Who wants to admit that?

In 168 hours, there is plenty of space to nurture yourself alongside your career and your relationships.

Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne)

I never want to put my whole world in any one person's hands again, Jason. If they die, I won't die with them.' 'So you'll hold a little of yourself back from everybody.' 'No,' I said, 'I'll hold back a piece of myself for myself. No one gets all of me, Jason, no one, except me.

there was still a part of me that kept waiting for it all to go to hell. At least I'd stopped poking at it and trying to break it myself, that was a step up. Let's hear it for therapy and smart friends who intervened when I fell back into old destructive habits.

Sometimes you just stayed numb, because anything else was not helpful. Sanity relied on numbness, sometimes.

Concentreaza-te asupra ta: fa ce vrei, cand vrei, fara sa-ti bati capul cu lucrurile pe care altii le vor de la tine.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

I cry to let everything out

When life sucks, read. They can't yell at you for that. And if they do, then you can ignore them.

But I had never seen a first aid kit for the spirit...

She snapped, they said. Couldn't take it anymore. Reached her breaking point. We should teach our girls that snapping is okay instead of waiting for someone else to break them.