Quotes About Self-care

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

sometimes we have no choice but to be selfish if we are to . . . survive" Excerpt From Someone to Hold

Do take a break soon, James. Too much work cannot be good for the health.

Cleansing our emotional poison is a simple process. All it takes is the thought of love and our breath. We hold the wound in our mind briefly. Then we breathe deliberately while thinking of the word love. We can apply this cleansing routine to old wounds and new ones. When we clean a wound, it heals itself. We cannot clean a wound by sharing the poison with someone else. Such an action increases the poison.

Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.

Don't let anyone drive you crazy. It's right nearby anyway, and the walk will do you good.

You're working so hard, burning the candle at both ends. Up early, home late. When are you going to stop and smell the roses?

Never fall in love with anything that can't love you back.

Love your own body like your mom loved your baby feet.

On her lips, which were dry, was a new shade of lipstick, by Tussy; her doctor had ordered her to put on lipstick and powder right in the middle of labour; he and Sloan both thought it was important for a maternity patient to keep herself up to the mark.

When will you have a little pity for every soft thing that walks through the world, yourself included.

let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

Today sucks. I'm goin' back to bed.

WHEN things are bad, give yourself a point for everything.

She wrinkled her nose to dismiss the thought. This is how she had learned to release some of her anxiety- thoughts may come, but she didn't have to follow them everywhere they wanted her to go

why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.

How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?

What's certain is that I don't need the stress.

I remember looking at my calendar and realizing that over a span of a year and a half, I had taken exactly seven days off. The rest of the time I had typically worked twelve to sixteen hours a day.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.