Quotes About Self-care

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Be faithful to your secret place, and it will become your closest friend and bring you much comfort. In silence and stillness a devout person grows spiritually and learns the hidden things of the Bible. Tears shed there bring cleansing. God draws near to the one who withdraws for a while. It is better for you to look after yourself this way in private than to perform wonders in public while neglecting your soul.

It is better for you to live privately and take care of yourself than it is to neglect your soul even though you could work wonders in the world.

The spiritually-minded man putteth care of himself before all cares; and he who diligently attendeth to himself easily keepeth silence concerning others. Thou wilt never be spiritually minded and godly unless thou art silent concerning other men's matters and take full heed to thyself. If thou think wholly upon thyself and upon God, what thou seest out of doors shall move thee little. Where art thou when thou art not present to thyself?

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Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.

It is absolutely indispensable, for most people, especially for the like of me, so thin-skinned and so confused at being, to get into perfect seclusion of mind from time to time and to be well alone

Working out is not a luxury, it's a necessity.

I know I love going to my gym - I have a whole list of things I love to do by myself without needing someone else to make me happy.

Sometimes the body just needs to take a break, and you need to listen.

I don't want anything negative in my life, like hate, comparison, competition, and jealousy. I think these things are very heavy and take away from you the way of enjoying life.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.

I don't want to bring negative energy to myself, and if people feel one way about me, I don't want that changing how I feel or what I believe.

I've always taken care of myself, and I'm a non-conformist, so I don't accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

I keep myself away from negativity because it leaves me agitated.

I try my best to just ignore the negativity. Which is hard for me because it's a lot to deal with.

Being a busy woman and busy mom, we can tend to neglect ourselves and push our thoughts to the back of our brains to deal with later. By taking care of yourself, you become mentally and physically healthier and show up happier for those around you.

I had personal problems. I was spending 50% of my life on my family, 50% on boxing. Neither was getting anywhere. It was killing me. So I had to break away from fighting.

Before anyone else, women need to accept that neither does life stop, nor does it change for those few days in a month.

It's just like any job. We're either in the arena or working out during certain hours of the day, but you have other hours for things that you want to do during the day as a human being, and for me, maybe I don't go shopping. Maybe I go into my backyard and throw against a net.

I love taking baths with Lush bath bombs, or just sitting in a dark room and watching Netflix to turn my brain off.

The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.