Quotes About Self-care

Girl, you're going to be all right. You haven't forgotten the essentials. You know about defending yourself. All you have to do now is remember … sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself.

I ordered myself to be kind.

sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself." When

I made bitterness into a wad and swallowed it.

If you don't protect yourself, you look like a fool asking somebody else to protect you. [..] A woman needs to support herself before she asks anyone else to support her.

He explained when we were smaller that when things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep.

The more you cry, the less you'll pee, and peeing is more important.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

You need to worry less about what everyone else thinks and focus on what makes you happy

I understand that to be strong, your mind has to be strong and focused. It has to heal just like your body had to heal. The mind is a very peculiar thing. Your brain has a way of protecting itself and you from devastation

Recognizing your illness is the first step in your recovery

Learn to relax.

I can't join a gym! I'm depressed, not suicidal!

Am I really not worth shaving for?

I'll just go at my own pace. Nice and easy. Here we go. There, see? I'm doing it. I'm running! Hey, look at me! I'm running! I'm- Okay, well, that's enough of that. Whew. I mean, a girl could hyperventilate from doing that. And seriously, it's my first day. Don't want to overdo it.

The good thing about being in one's midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don't return people's texts and voice mails

It's just that one thing I've learned from all of this is that we don't have very much time here on Earth. So why waste it putting up with other people's crap?

Like Grandmère says, every woman needs at least eight hours of sleep a night so that she can wake refreshed upon the morning to battle the new day.

You have to be as relaxed as possible about food and fitness and the rest of it, or you'll be a slave to your beauty habits ... You may have great skin, but you'll become a robot.

Taking care of myself is a big job. No wonder I avoided it for so long. —ANONYMOUS

Detaching does not mean we don't care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy.

the surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.