Quotes About Self-care

For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Sometimes the MOM who's always there for everyone else, needs someone to be there for HER.

Every morning is a reason to begin living again… in case if you have had a good sleep. If not, then begin living again, anyway, and take care of yourself!

What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?

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Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.

You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.

Please don't tell me not to be sad. I know you don't like to see me hurting, but my sadness is mine to feel, not yours to heal. Let me be sad. It will pass in its own time. It always does.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yet if I am for myself only, what am I?

think of self-acceptance in terms of "permission." So, for example, "accepting the need to rest" might become "giving myself permission to rest." In whatever way you look at it, self-acceptance or permission means you honestly acknowledge reality. It also means putting down the stick that we've been using to beat ourselves. In this way, the pain lessens and our capacity to act is enhanced.

Asserting requires action. Self-worth is an active process, not a passive state. When we start asserting our worth, we do healthy things like eat well, exercise, and consciously choose people and activities that are good for us. We do a couple of things each day to improve our lives—because we are already worth it.

We tend to view compassion as something we project outward—that is, as a presence or gift we offer to another person or on behalf of a suffering world. This keeps compassion as an act of superiority, something the healthy offer the sick. We rarely offer the gift of compassionate presence to our own person.

The best cure for a broken heart is a dozen eggs.

The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Your health is the most important commodity that you have. Without it, everything will fall apart - relationships, financial wellbeing, career, school, and so on. It is very important to take good care of yourself.

The country would be far better if the population were half as interested in keeping their minds in as good condition as they tried to keep their bodies.

When people who are tolerably fortunate in their outward lot do not find in life sufficient enjoyment to make it valuable to them, the cause generally is, caring for nobody but themselves

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being.

People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.

People who cannot find time for recreation are sooner or later to find time for illness.

So I must be locked up, where I can be safely irresponsible, where I can do no harm.

Too often, people approach meditation as though they were taking medicine—it tastes bad, but they grin and bear it because it's supposed to be good for them. Instead, make meditation into a pleasurable activity. If you're at ease and happy, you will be more successful than if you're tense and straining. The