Quotes About Self-care

I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself!

I don't care about losing people who don't wanna be in my life anymore. I've lost people who meant the world to me and I'm still doing just fine.

Paying attention to personal grooming while you are recovering from a one-night stand can improve things immensely.

And yet," said he, "how can a man take care of his own horse or furbish up his spear and helmet, if he is unaccustomed to using his hands on his own dear person? Know ye not," said he, "that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?

I hate to exercise, I hate to meditate, I don't enjoy eating well, I never get proper sleep. I am not a poster child for wellness. I am a sick girl. I know sickness. I live with it. In some ways, I keep myself sick." "Sick" Porochista Khakpour

I hate to exercise, I hate to meditate, I don't enjoy eating well, I never get proper sleep. I am not a poster child for wellness. I am a sick girl. I know sickness. I live with it. In some ways, I keep myself sick.

Cantik menarik sungguh lebih baik daripada kusut, Ann. Ingat-ingat itu. Dan setiap yang buruk tak pernah menarik. Perempuan yang tak dapat merawat kecantikan sendiri, kalau aku lelaki, akan kukatakan pada teman-temanku, jangan kawini perempuan semacam itu, dia tidak bisa apa-apa, merawat kulitnya sendiri pun tak kuasa.

To learn to forget is as necessary and useful as to learn to remember. We think of many things every day which it would be more profitable not to think of at all. To be able to forget is to be able to drive away the unseen force (thought) which is injuring us, and change it for a force (or order of thought) to benefit us.

He who lives by medical prescriptions lives miserably.

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.

an unhappy person can never give happiness, so stay away from him.

No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.

I thought I'd be reading a new book today, but it doesn't feel right, or I don't feel like it. Some days are not new-book days. After

I want to protect each person's boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you're ultimately left with nothing.

My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer.

Most people prefer to take care of themselves before they take care of the truth, and then wonder where their talent has disappeared off to.

When the recorded voice came to the part about the oxygen masks, the hush remained unbroken: no one protested, or spoke up to disagree with this commandment that one should take care of others only after taking care of oneself. Yet I wasn't sure it was altogether true.

To be a mother I must leave the telephone unanswered, work undone, arrangements unmet. To be myself I must let the baby cry, must forestall her hunger or leave her for evenings out, must forget her in order to think about other things. To succeed in being one means to fail at being the other.

I try to keep myself young as possible. I vow to never let my hair go grey.

There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their fears and negativities and vulnerabilities. And there's something that's really truthful about that - when I've gone through hard times or breakups, I've spent a lot of time on my couch overeating and crying with friends, that's true.