Quotes About Self-care

Don't forget to love yourself.

Your body will always tell you what you need. If you crave sweet things, your energy is flagging. If it's meat you want, your iron is low. When you want potatoes above everything else, there is something not grounded with you. Whatever tricks your head many play on you, however fickle your heart, your body will tell you very specifically what it is you need, and it is up to you to listen.

Whatever. Life is too short, and cake is delicious, and there is nothing wrong with taking up some space in the world.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Your goal is to reach the point where, no matter what happens in any given day, you just don't give a shit.

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

Often the hardest person to fight for is... yourself. But you must. Your heart is needed. You must be present and engaged in order to love well and fight on behalf of others. Without you, much will be lost." Chapter 11 "Warrior Princess

It is my opinion that you should lend yourself to others and give yourself only to yourself.

How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my health, my thoughts, my feelings, from the danger of being sacrificed to the deranged prejudices of others, to serve interests which are not my own?

Physician, heal thyself," runs the adage; but it was characteristic of Mary Baker as of so many mental healers, that the magician who cured thousands could never fully succeed in curing herself.

A few months ago, at the end of a very stressful period both at work and in her private life, she had sat down and thought about what changes might make her happier.

big, strapping macho guys were like liquid diets--they were great for emergencies, but she wouldn't want to be on one all the time.

while other people can bring insight and support (and trouble and pain) into our lives, no-one can save us: we can only save ourselves.

Many people who find it hard to be alone blame or despise themselves (or know themselves so little they do not realise that they can't be alone but fill their lives with work, people, noise, booze or drugs).

In appropriate sacrifice, the self maintins a solicitude for itself amid caring for others. It also feels a strong connection to other people. Growing out of the balance between caring for self and other simultaneously, it can accept other people as they are.

I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily relaxing. I believe that it prepares me for sleep and washes away the cares of my day. I will consider that intarsia, or Fair Isle with three or more colors in a row, prepares nobody for sleep and cursing loudly while flinging knitting around the living room is about as far away from soothing as you can get.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

And the truth is I've always taken very good care of my skin, and always, always worn make-up.