Quotes About Self-care

I love getting baths and going to the Korean spas and getting pummeled and scrubbed, and its so hot in the sauna you can't even stand it. I have to do things in a pretty extreme way to calm down. So a Swedish massage is not going to do it! I need to know that they're in there with their thumbs and moving stuff around.

An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

When I hit 40, I ballooned. I thought it might have been age, abuse, but it wasn't, it was a thyroid condition.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

I go to the hairdresser once a month and even if I don't use products, I always want to look tidy.

My weight blew up to 400 lbs and I couldn't bend down to tie my own shoelaces.

When I am making a movie, I am very casual; wearing chappals, and have my hair tied. However, when I am judging a show, I take care of myself and get the makeup and hair done.

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you stays so mad with peoples you feels sick all the time like you needs the doctor.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

I carry a golf ball to put under my feet when they get tight, and a Thera-Band for general stretching.

Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I'm guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I'll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, 'I have to go here. I've got to go there.' Usually, stretching is what gets cut out of the program, but it's so critical.

When I have meetings scheduled so tight that I can't go to the loo, that's where I draw the line!

Don't put on something so tight thinking, 'Oh, I can wear this for four hours.' Don't do that to yourself!

If I feel my Achilles and my ankle are tight, I make sure I get it worked on before I practice because I don't want to put myself in the situation of possibly getting hurt.

Make yourself the first priority.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

I learned a vital lesson when I began meditation: if I did not respect what I was doing, nobody else would. Meditation has further demonstrated to me that once you begin to respect yourself and what you do—not in an egocentric way, but with appreciation and self-worth—then any activity becomes meaningful. Life is to be respected, appreciated, and lived fully—instead of chastised or rushed through.

If your motivation when you get up in the morning is to have very little contact with anyone, come home, and go to bed as soon as you can, almost everything that occurs during the day will make you feel brittle and irritable, because it's in your way.

Eating and drinking late at night tells the liver that it needs to keep working. Therefore we sleep poorly and wake up sluggish.

To be gentle is to encourage ourselves.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.

To be gentle is to understand that life is a journey deserving constant attentiveness. Therefore it is gentleness that allows us to finish a marathon, not putting pressure on ourselves to immediately think about the next one. Gentleness is "just doing it" in such a way that we can do it again and again.