Quotes About Self-care

A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.

But though you'd never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you're going to fall like a starving man.

Well, you go straight back to bed, then!" "Yes." He wheeled. She swatted him on the butt. He bit his tongue. She said, "At least you've been eating better. Take care of yourself, huh?" He

A few years back, when I finally got smart enough to go to a therapist, she asked me how I had held things together all these years. It didn't take long to come up with an answer. "That's easy. I belong to a book club.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

sleep whenever there was time and to eat when there was food.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

Maybe this was what being in a pandemic brought forth. When everything big is out of control, you start taking charge of small things.

Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger or harrass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. I have to heal any way I can. You will stop asking questions and you will not give me any worry. You will not go after him. You will not terrify me, Joe. I've had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. You will not add to my sorrows. You will not be part of this.

Those are the only things which really seem to do him any good.

It's easy to be worried about the media's influence on our lives. But there is a need for us to also simply be kind to ourselves, to be kind to our bodies. Not just because we deserve more respect and more self-care, but also because the world deserves more of our attention, and we just can't give it out if it's diverted to obsessing over our thighs.

Never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.

We are our own walking pharmacies shooting ourselves up with our own homemade chemicals. This constant need for a fix to make you feel good prompts you to pursue rewards over and over again and strengthens the behaviour that made you want to get them in the first place. It's a vicious circle. So

what's the point in beating yourself up when other people will do it for you?

In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy, More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

Physician heal thyself.

In the broadest sense, however, meditation is simply the ability to stop suffering in many of the usual ways, if only for a few moments at a time. How could that not be a skill worth cultivating?

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Boxing's a rough sport. After every fight I rush to the mirror to make sure I'm presentable.

I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.

I've just been enjoying the training a bit more. I've put too much pressure on myself in the past. Just relax and let it come. I just went out there to have a bit of fun tonight.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers