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Quotes About Self-care

Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
~ Thomas Aquinas
His rule of thumb, after a walk, is to drink water until he begins to urinate again. Then he can consider other activities.
~ Neal Stephenson
The central question in ANY decision is, "What would love do now?" Love for yourself, and love for all others who are affected or involved. If you love another, you will not do anything that you believe could or would hurt that person. If there is any question or doubt, you will wait until you can get to clarity on the matter.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You cannot be ill without at some level causing yourself to be, and you can be well again in a moment by simply deciding to be.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Illness and disease are opposites of health and wellness, and are made manifest in your reality at your behest. You cannot be ill without at some level causing yourself to be, and you can be well again in a moment by simply deciding to be.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You cannot be ill without at some level causing yourself to be, and you can be well again in a moment by simply deciding to be. Deep personal disappointments are responses which are chosen, and worldwide calamities are the result of worldwide consciousness.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Give yourself abundant pleasure, that you may have an abundant pleasure to give others.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
All of your life you have been taught that it is better to give than to receive. Yet you cannot give what you do not have. This is why self-gratification is so important—and why it is so unfortunate that it has come to sound so ugly. Obviously, self-gratification at the expense of others is not what we're talking about here. This is not about ignoring the needs of others. Yet life should also not have to be about ignoring your own needs.
~ Neale Walsch
Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on yourself." "Okay." "Only then does healing take place." "All right.
~ Ned Vizzini
Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on Yourself. Only then does healing take place.
~ Ned Vizzini
What's helped with saying no to others is asking myself first if I'm saying yes out of guilt or fear. If so, then it's a polite no.
~ Neil Strauss
Never have sex with a woman who has more problems than you do.
~ Nelson DeMille
And here I am again, not convalescing this time but decompressing, which is a lot better than decomposing.
~ Nelson DeMille
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.
~ Nicholas Sparks
That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?
~ Nicholas Sparks
Everyone's entitled to a bad day.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I want balance. Work is important because I have to support myself, but so are friends, health, rest. Having the time to do things that I enjoy, and sometimes doing nothing at all.
~ Nicholas Sparks
In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.
~ Dominique Moceanu
Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
~ Diana Ross
I like being alone. I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long.
~ Rooney Mara
Trolls don't deserve much attention. None of them are feeding or taking care of me.
~ Sara Khan
Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.
~ Heidi Klum
I think every mother feels that the best place for their child is with their mum, but you want things for yourself, too. So, you're either at work feeling guilty, or you are at home feeling frustrated.
~ Laura Fraser