Quotes About Self-care

Everyone else has a work party,'Kate said. 'So why shouldn't we? We're working hard at not being mad.

There is a saying, 'it's never too late to have a happy childhood'. I'd rephrase that. I'd say, it's never too late to stop a difficult childhood from turning us into unhappy adults.

Sometimes, we find it hard to talk. We get angry and frustrated. We fall into despair. We cry, for no apparent reason. Sometimes we find it difficult to eat, or to sleep. Often, we have to go to bed in the afternoon or all day.

Running at such a pace to keep all of these balls in the air left me gasping for breath and longing for attention and support

Managing our stress and our rest is a sign of living wisely.

A WISE WOMAN TAKES CARE OF HER EMOTIONAL HEALTH, her spiritual health, and her intellectual growth.

It took me a little while, but I learned to see my "time-outs" as necessities, not luxuries, and to be vigilant about making room for them in my life. Without them, I found it almost impossible to provide the kind of welcoming, accepting home experience that Nathan and all my children needed.

But try to avoid being too hard on yourself or identifying too many items you need to get to work on,

Protection does not come in a bottle. It is in me, in my actions, in my thoughts. I am the best medicine for myself. I am the cure and the disease.

Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

whatever is happening outside, Beta, your must not let it sink into your flesh. Do not punish your body for what it cannot control.

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

But I could not stay with him myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again.

At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse

and if I asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?

The path of joy involves valuing yourself and monitoring where you put your time.

scientists say that being fat can lead to dementia. I have decided, however, to throw caution to the winds and proceed with my all-cream-cake regime. It seems to me that the fatter I get, the fewer places I will go and so the less I will have to remember.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

If you aren't nurturing your self, what kind of mother can you be, anyway?

The combination of self love and surrender never fails

Burnout is like your spare tyre going flat. Remember, to take care of you.