Quotes About Self-care

Purge everyone who "brings you down," and you risk being very lonely or, what is worse, cut off from reality.

We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.

Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life.

I smoke. It's expensive. It's also the best option. You see, I am always, always exhausted. It's a stimulant. When I am too tired to walk one more step, I can smoke and go for another hour. When I am enraged and beaten down and incapable of accomplishing one more thing, I can smoke and feel a little better, just for a minute. It is the only relaxation I am allowed.

Analizând preocup?rile de ast?zi pentru practicarea fitnessului, f?r? îndoial? c? un psihiatru de la jum?tatea secolului al XX-lea ar g?si numeroase motive s? suspecteze o gam? larg? de tulbur?ri mintale - masochism, narcisism, tulburare obsesiv-compulsiv? - fiecare dintre acestea putând semnala necesitatea unei intervenÈ›ii medicale.

Once I realized I was old enough to die, I decided that I was also old enough not to incur any more suffering, annoyance, or boredom in the pursuit of a longer life." No more annual exams, cancer screenings, mammograms, and any other measure "expected of a responsible person with health insurance….Not only do I reject the torment of a medicalized death, but I refuse to accept a medicalized life.

Mother could go for one year without food, but not one day without her lip sticks.

Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value of the occasional closed door. We need our moments of declared truce.

I was so depressed I stopped using hair spray for three weeks.

And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.

since I myself find in myself no pity to myself.

Besides wanting you to have a healthy child, I want you to be as healthy as possible. The Food for Thought sections at the end of certain chapters describe how the nutrients your unborn baby needs will also benefit your own health, now and for many years to come.

Healing is dealing, and dealing is feeling, and feeling is healing.

If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.

Note which states of mind accompany each moment of like and disliking. When we recall the statement, "Physician, heal thyself," this is where the healing begins. It is particularly important to notice that this constant liking and disliking that leaves us exhausted at the end of the day. It is from this mechanical response / reaction that our actions and reactions arises.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

It's a principle you can see validated in your own life when you burn the candle at both ends to get more golden eggs and wind up sick or exhausted, unable to produce any at all; or when you get a good night's sleep and wake up ready to produce throughout the day.

Effectiveness lies in the balance. Excessive focus on P results in ruined health, worn-out machines, depleted bank accounts, and broken relationships. Too much focus on PC is like a person who runs three or four hours a day, bragging about the extra ten years of life it creates, unaware he's spending them running. Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs—the eternal student syndrome.

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Urgency addiction is a self-destructive behavior that temporarily fills the void created by unmet needs.

many of us find that increasing our speed only makes things worse.

Have you ever been too busy driving to take time to get gas?