Quotes About Self-care

I want to encourage people to make healthy life choices, whether it's training for a half-marathon, or eating more vegetables.

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I still don't get why I have to eat breakfast if you don't," Josie muttered. "Because you have to be a certain age to earn the right to ruin your own life.

You have to not worry or doubt or punish yourself. All the worry, doubt and punishment will not add one second to your life, you know?

My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

I have a very full and busy life and occasionally I am asked, Scotty, how can you do all that you do? The most telling reply I can give is: Because I spend at least two hours a day doing nothing.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

There's no one else who can make the daily decisions—eating well, exercising regularly—that deliver lifelong health. In other words, being healthy is a "do-it-yourself" project. Seen in that light, we are all biohackers. Yet too many people entrust their day-to-day decisions to authority figures—the tools, as it were—on the assumption that the experts actually know what they're talking about.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.

You have to be mindful of your people without becoming forgetful of yourself….

You will be getting a haircut, won't you?" Halt ran his hand through his hair. It was getting a little long, he thought. I'll give it a trim," he said, his hand dropping unconciously to the hilt of his saxe knife. This time, Pauline did look up. You'll get a haircut," she said. Her gaze was steady and unwavering. I'll get a haircut," he agreed meekly.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

If you're not eating, not caring about your body, letting it waste away, having your mind distorted by being constantly intoxicated, you can't be a serious exerciser. You can't do it.

If you can get to the point where you're consistently saying to yourself exercise is something you want to do, then you're charting a course to a different future—one that's less about surviving and more about thriving.

There's certainly nothing wrong with taking medicine, but if you can achieve the same results through exercise, you build confidence in your own ability to cope.