Quotes About Self-care

Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what made your life worthwhile and happy.

I feed myself with the old grief.

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

My body needs it—the hot baths, the care, the soft water, the perfume, the warmth. I take on the colors of the flowers, the bloom, the delicacy. It becomes me.

There are times when nobody can help you, not even the one you love. You have to be alone. You have to be ill, and wallow in your illness. Your soul needs it.

Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.

Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.

The inspector had two proven methods for combating melancholy: the first was to bury himself in bed, covers pulled up over his head; the second was to stuff himself with food.

I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time. Diagnosis

Prozac doesn't do it unless we help it along. Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.

I guess being depressed all the time was actually a relatively safe place to be. I didn't have the real-world worries that everyone else has because I knew that I simply couldn't function well enough to take care of myself. What do I do now? Trying to break the habits of years of depression is what I'm doing for the moment with my doctor.

To take medication as part of the battle is to battle fiercely, and to refuse it would be as ludicrously self-destructive as entering a modern war on horseback. It is not weak to take medications; it does not mean that you can't cope with your personal life; it is courageous. Nor is it weak to seek help from a wise therapist.

I had a lot of dates, but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows.

And let me tell you - carrying sad memories will wear you out. You've got to put them down walk away. Do whatever you must to put emotional space between yourself and your past. That's the only way you're going to make it through.

With the heart, you invest in another person. With your liver, you invest in yourself, and if you don't love yourself, how can you love someone else?

If you allow someone to treat you badly, then the love can't get through.

I look upon it that a man who does not mind his stomach would hardly mind anything else.

how we value and treat ourselves, not just on how we value or treat others.

If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.

people, who "dig their grave with their teeth.

if you stop "thrashing your liver" into an early state of exhaustion, you will add many years to your life.

Sometimes we are too fragile to to this work; we cannot risk being shattered because we are not ready to put ourselves back together again.