Quotes About Self-care

The standard you should apply in deciding whether or not to have an active relationship with him is the same one you should apply to all the relationships in your life: you will not be mistreated or disrespected or manipulated.

Yes. There is something I can offer that will help. I can tell you to get yourself out of that house. You mustn't live with people who wish to annihilate you. Even if you love them.

Doing what one wants to do because one wants to do it is hard for a lot of people, but I think it's particularly hard for women. We are, after all, the gender onto which a giant Here to Serve button has been eternally pinned. We're expected to nurture and give by the very virtue of our femaleness, to consider other people's feelings and needs before our own.

I suggest you forget about forgiveness for now and strive for acceptance instead.

You are not a terrible person for wanting to break up with someone you love. You don't need a reason to leave. Wanting to leave is enough.

Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.

you must set boundaries. Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.

Thank you. For showing me what love is all about. And thank you for also teaching me to never love someone too much.

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

The idea of preventive medicine is faintly un-American. It means, first, recognizing that the enemy is us.

Information should be used as food for thought, not poison to the soul.

Letting myself get stressed out makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"

Diet is a four-letter word.

Your body is a temple, but how long can you live in the same house before you redecorate?

It would fare but ill with many of us if we were left to superintend our own digestion and circulation. 'Bless me!' one would cry, 'I forgot to wind up my heart this morning! To think that it has been standing still for the last three hours!' 'I can't walk with you this afternoon,' a friend would say, 'as I have no less than eleven dinners to digest. I had to let them stand over from last week, being so busy, and my doctor says he will not answer for the consequences if I wait any longer!'

Most of us have become deaf to our own bodies, which is why we are out of tune.

Your body is a temple but only if you treat it as one.

If your body's not right, the rest of you will go wrong. Take care of yourself.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

The best six doctors anywhere And no one can deny it Are sunshine, water, rest, and air Exercise and diet...

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Weekend goals: not leaving my bedroom, not leaving my house, not going to a party. My childhood punishments have become my adult goals.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.

Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.