Quotes About Self-care

I have begun looking for sources of joy elsewhere, and dialing back my career's presence in my mind.

I think there must be more to life than answering emails at midnight and five in the morning.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn't matter who was right and who wrong. At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without even knowing it.

keeping her wild-honey-and-chamomile-soaked hair from falling into her oatmeal-and-yogurt face mask

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the '60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on - her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

The esteem of others is outside our control; we must attend instead to healing ourselves.

The key to the problem is an empowered, knowledgeable patient, but as we shall see, extra information need not lead to empowerment. Whether

Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Part of making yourself a priority is spending time alone.

You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.

I maintain my inner beauty by trying to lead a balanced life in general. I try to eat healthy foods, but... that doesn't mean I won't treat myself now and then! I work out almost every day, which gives me more energy and helps me feel stronger. I also try to be a genuinely good person to the people around me.

We have got to let loose sometimes, rather than indulging intractably in self-harm or self-mistreatment, by pursuing impervious dreams. ( « Les choses avaient enfin perdu leur pesanteur » )

I'm tired of being your scratching post," he growled. "From now on, sharpen your claws on someone else." - Bumblestripe

Your first job when eating is to nourish yourself.

The first step in recovering from an eating disorder is recognising that there is a problem.

What I would like to say to you in conclusion is this: romance is the dessert. If you are hungry, you need to be working on the main meal - yourself. That means learning how to fulfill yourself first, and once you have achieved that, then you will be ready for dessert!" - Raeleen

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

If you overdo it, there are consequences. What kind of consequences? Strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms... How do you know when you have overdone it? When you have a stroke, brain hemorrhage or an aneurysm.