Quotes About Self-care

Allow yourself a moment of grief when life's misfortunes visit you. However, do not spend your days building a monument in honor of them.

Even when life isn't good on the outside, you have an option to make it good from the inside out.

Their issues are not your issues.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.

When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.

If you are a woman, you may need to forgive those whom you have loved or those who refused to love you; those who have hurt you, shamed you, and abandoned you; or those who left you scarred or wounded.

Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

When I trust what I think and feel, then I am empowered to take actions that are self-supportive, self-respectful, and self-nurturing. I

but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

Mm-hmm. You know, lip dye isn't a crime in this state. You ought to try it. I've been kind of busy. You're always kind of busy. You're not using the eye gel I gave you. You can't find a minute twice a day for eye gel? You want bags and wrinkles? You got the finest piece of man-candy on and off planet, and you want him looking at your face with bags and wrinkles? What are you going to do when he dumps you for a woman who takes time to maintain her face? Kill him.

Roarke: Pull yourself together, Eve. He was already in a business suit, his hair shining and sleek... Eve: How come you already are? Roarke: Because staying in bed half the morning unless sex is involved is a waste of time. Since you didn't appear to be cooperative in that area, I started my day with coffee instead

I find myself pulling back, too often, from friends. It's easier, and more self-indulgent, to be alone. I need a nudge out of that cycle from time to time.

Often when a parent loses herself-or himself-in the day-to-day responsibilities and demands of raising children, they become a less effective, and less loving parent than they might be.

Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their role. God knew Ehlena told this to the family members of her chronically sick patients all the time, and the advice was both sound and practical. At least when she gave it to others. Turned on herself, it felt selfish.

Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.

Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their role.

Beth popped a Tums in her mouth and crunched it into a powder that filled the creases in her molars.

A veces, lo mejor que podemos hacer por alguien es mantenernos alejados de él.

And maybe you should think about slowing down for a few minutes?

It's okay to fall apart, Gavin.

Levántate y date una ducha, cabrón. –¿Qué pasa? –A mí no me vengas con qué pasa. Anoche fumaste marihuana. –Pero no era nada buena, de todos modos –dije, y me fui al baño.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.

Going on tour for 10 years straight and playing 200-plus shows a year, you can't ever come back from that mentally. You're twisted in a weird way where you need that in order to be a person still.