Quotes About Self-care

Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

Getting a pedicure seems to be a standard pre-birth ritual, presumably because it is relaxing and makes you feel pretty even though your little piggies are going to be covered in those awesome no-skid hospital socks which I kept on for three days.

As women, I think we lower our standards of what we expect of ourselves. Don't just stay at home and do jumping jacks and leave the gym space to the gym. You have every right to be in the gym - for your health, and so you've got energy for your kids.

The best thing they've told me is to be forgiving of yourself as a mother. I think you go into it, and you want to hold yourself to the highest standards, and you want to be perfect. That's not possible. You make mistakes and learn.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.

Let a man use great reverence and manners to himself.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

I am a big man, but I've allowed my condition to deteriorate by being overweight.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

I am all about health... and to me, size is not what defines your health.

Before we can provide corrective emotional experiences for each other, we must learn how to tend to our own immature parts, to our own reactivity, to our avoidance, our long-suffering frustration. We must master the art of relational mindfulness and retake the reins.

the only person who can with absolute consistency be there for our inner children is us. And that's okay. That's enough. Once we learn how to do it.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.