Quotes About Self-care

You become aware of the damage that you do to your own body when you feel and act without compassion.

Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.

Cada persona debe ocuparse de sí misma... de hacerse... íntegra. Tenemos lecciones que aprender... cada uno de nosotros. Deben ser aprendidas una a una... en orden. Sólo entonces podemos saber qué necesita la persona de al lado, qué le falta o qué nos falta a nosotros para ser íntegros.

Stop doing this to yourself, man. Find something that makes you happy and be that. We can't let the fear of our fucked up lives stop us from finding our bliss.

You don't have to be perfect. Not for God, not for your community, not for anyone. All you have to be is human. All you have to be is you. So lay down when you need to, and then, eventually, it will be time for you to get up, have something to eat, and try again.

I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

I don't think you need a man in this world anymore; I think you just need yourself and a little love and a bath.

I tried the Atkins diet in the Seventies when pregnant with my son, as I didn't want to pile on the pounds. Now, so long as I'm healthy, I don't care what my scales say.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

They want you to see them as fragile. By so doing, they don't have to put themselves back together. Don't

You can't give what you don't have.

when I begin to feel overwhelmed, I pull back. I have learned to say no. When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

We have to take care of ourselves so we can bring our best selves.

until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself.

When I'm around someone who drains me, I put up a barrier—a nonphysical wall that keeps that person's negative energy away.

if you have experienced trauma but haven't excavated it, the wounded parts of you will affect everything you've managed to build.

She said that until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself. This is the lesson I hope everyone carries with them from our conversation, too.

I fall in that category. For years, I would say yes to things I knew I really did not want to do, or avoid difficult conversations because I could not live with the discomfort of speaking up for myself. I've known other victims of trauma who sabotage situations until someone else says no for them—meaning their relationship ends, a friendship becomes toxic, or they lose a job. This is what I hear you saying when you talk about people who poison intimacy.