Quotes About Self-care

If we try to practice meditation without the foundation of goodwill to ourselves and others, it is like trying to row across a river without first untying the boat; our efforts, no matter how strenuous, will not bear fruit. We need to practice and refine our ability to live honestly and with integrity.

I'm not going to get myself hurt." I'm too important to let that happen. ~Jaypaw

Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too.

I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

I'd realized that the best thing for my mental health would be to abandon social media altogether.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

Todos los días la gente se arregla el cabello, ¿por qué no el corazón?

Yesterday was my day off and I decided to play hooky for the Bible study I usually go to on Saturday mornings and sleep in. Probably not my most shining moment, but Katie and Eliza kept me up until past two talking about wedding plans and I'd been up since before five. They were Pinteresting wedding décor and I was googling "can you die from sleep deprivation" on my phone under the table. Turns out you can.

True Allowing is maintaining your own balance, your own joy, no matter what they are doing.

miscreating. And so, when you recognize that you are feeling negative emotion—no matter why, no matter how it got there, no matter what the situation is—stop doing whatever it is that you are doing and focus your thoughts on something that feels better.

You can't get sick enough to help sick people get better. You cannot get poor enough to help poor people thrive.

It feels like anger, frustration, resentment, blame, guilt, or fear. . . . Those thoughts are not good for you, and you can tell they are not good for you because they feel bad when

stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.

The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

If I do three movies in a year, I don't feel like acting ever again.

It's always okay to admit you are struggling. Why

If we are able to take responsibility for our own mind, then we can work with whatever life throws at us without resentment or blame, and with the curiosity and self-care that are necessary for mindfulness to develop in all aspects of life. On this basis, we can also help others.

The doormat version of idiot compassion always involves allowing ourselves to feel walked all over in the name of idealizing what it means to be patient with another person's aggressive behavior. It's an unwillingness to face the uncomfortable truth that it's okay to feel angry and irritated.

Thinking that we have to always burn our candle at both ends in order to benefit others is perhaps the greatest idiot compassion of all.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: To reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world." -Etty Hillesum Journals, Amsterdam, 1941

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.