Quotes About Self-care

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

SmÄ›j se vÅ¡emu a nenech se ostatními vyvést z míry! Zdá se to sobecké, ale ve skute?nosti je to jediný lék proti sebelítosti.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

it is the only time I can rest without sleeping, think without deciding, speak and hear my own voice. It is the only time I can be alone. Slightly less than an hour each weekday when no one makes demands.

easing up on seventy, an age when a man might be forgiven follicular failure.

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like.

Then having broken my long fast on a cup of tea and a little thin bread and butter, I sat down beside the small, smouldering fire, and amused myself with a hearty fit of crying.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

She's not a mother to me – I have to mother myself. I've cut myself adrift from them. I'm charting my own course, and we'll see where it leads me.

Nu exist? decât o singur? regul? de care trebuie s? È›ii seama: s? râzi de toate È™i s? nu-È›i pese de nimeni! Pare egoist, dar, în realitate, ?sta e singurul remediu pentru cei care-È™i plâng singuri de mil?.

brush my teeth, curl my hair, manicure my nails and dab peroxide on my upper lip to bleach the black hairs — all this in less than half an hour.

Friday, 16 June, 1944 ... There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others! It sounds selfish, but it's honestly the only cure for anyone who has to seek consolation in himself.

You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of the day.

you're only human. you dont have to have it together every minute of everyday

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats.