Quotes About Self-care

When are you going to learn to act in your own best interests? In spite of what your emotions tell you to do?

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can't hurt anyone.

All through the day, whenever the sadness comes, I pinch my arm to make the sadness go there. That takes it out of my heart. When I go to bed that night, I see a bruise on my arm.

He didn't ask you for your opinion on what he was doing as far as a break—he was telling you what he needed," Emily reminded her. "So you don't get to decide that he has to talk to you now. He walked away. When he's ready, then he can always come back and talk to you.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.

Zullen we even medelijden met onszelf hebben?' vroeg hij?

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Never let a gynecologist put anything in your nose.

Students who proceed according to the master-slave paradigm will only work themselves to death. Students who flirt and dally with Japanese in a lover-like relationship shall live happily ever after

My therapist has helped me learn to understand that if you don't unpack your own emotional baggage it's no longer baggage--it's deadweight.

Here's to looking every new mother in the eye, not just smiling at the baby, and asking her "How are YOU?" Here's to listening for her answer.

Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

The next time someone tries to make you feel bad about feeling good, respond by continuing to live well.

Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get lost in a book.

If you can't remember when you last basked in your own glow, it means you're overdue.

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from your desk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.

Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.

One of the most important ways for you to train, stay healthy and injury free is to listen closely to what your body tells you.

In a life full of work, family, civic responsibilities, commutes and errands, your training runs offer fertile opportunity to lean inward and listen.

Don't say yes out of obligation. When you don't feel an inner yes, say no to others' requests for your help. Reserve some of your time and energy for things you love to do.