Quotes About Self-care

If we serve our outer needs without allowing ourselves time for the person within, and especially if we ignore the inner voice that tells us to slow down or take a break, then at some point our health will begin to suffer.

throw down your throat and how much of your life is spent sprawled in a near-vegetative state in front of a glowing screen. Yet in some kind and miraculous way our bodies look after us, extract nutrients from the miscellaneous foodstuffs we push into our faces, and somehow hold us together, generally at a pretty high level, for decades. Suicide by lifestyle takes ages.

The average adult touches his face sixteen times an hour

Suicide by lifestyle takes ages.

ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years.

Not only do you not do your best work in the "dangerously over-challenged" range, but if you stay in this range for very long, something in your life will break. I don't care how resilient you are, how much energy you naturally possess, or how much mental toughness you think you have; something will break. You will not be exempt from this law. Your health, marriage, connection with your kids, relationship with God, emotional well-being—something is going to crack.

Nadie más puede llenar tu depósito. Te toca a ti proteger tus reservas de energía y tus prioridades.

Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that.

You've got to have something to eat, and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.

Sometimes you have to be satisfied. You try hard enough. Don't be so self-critical; don't be so hard on yourself. (Shape your Self by M. Navratilova)

The best possible medical care begins with self-care, which allows you to exert some control over your own well-being.

Drinking more water, eating lots of fruits and vegetables, avoiding processed salty foods, going to bed earlier, and exercising regularly will do more to give you beautiful, bright eyes than any cream or makeup can.

One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.

Twenty-five chocolate chip cookies would be the perfect dinner.

Yes, be selfish, woman—if you haven't learned that, you've learned damn little.

I'm going out, remember?" I prodded. "And I'm going to drink too much, which makes me horny. Don't forget to take your vitamins, ace.

Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.

It's not weak to stand by the person you love when they're trying to fix a big mistake, and it's not weak to decide to put yourself first.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.

After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.