Quotes About Self-care

FOLK SAYING: "Your health comes first; you can always hang yourself later.

Our body is a machine for living. It is geared towards it; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself; it will be more effective than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

Remember to stop as often as necessary to re-connect your energy. Stay full, stay in a state of love. Remember that once you achieve the state of love, nothing nor anyone can pull more energy from you that you can replace. In fact, the energy flowing out of you creates a current that pulls energy into you at the same rate. You can never run out. But you must stay conscious of this process in order for it to work. This is especially important when you interact with people.

Try to remember only the good now. The rest of it no longer serves you.

I keep in mind what Ann Dunnewold told me: when a mother takes care of herself, children absorb important lessons. "Both boys and girls learn that mothers have needs, too, which is also very important if they have children of their own," she says. If you must conquer guilt, she adds, tell yourself, 'When I take time for myself, I come back and I'm more the mother I want to be. More patient. Less reactive.

My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even at the time to be wrong. Had I died, it would have been self-destruction.

Go and eat and drink a little more, and you will do very well.

As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more.

nature is there, waiting to move in and help to heal herself.

Amazing how spending some money, especially when you haven't got it, can perk you up.

Other people's behavior is non of my business.

One person can't be expected to fulfill all your needs; that's just unreasonable." "True

Most of the time, when I'm facing an evening on my own, I am absolutely fine. If anything, I relish that alone time, when my daughter is with her father; the luxury of eating whatever I want to eat, the relief at not having to provide

Marshall Shafter...kept pasted in his desk drawer a piece of paper he looked at from time to time to remind himself of something. It said, A fool can put on his own clothes better than wise man can do it for him.

One of the truths I had had to accept during my years on the couch was that pleasure was not bad, that it was natural for people to desire pleasure, that denying oneself pleasure was not healthy.

You can't make another person treat you with respect, but you can treat yourself with respect. Walking away is treating yourself with respect—and

Snow White Makes a Plea to the Witch Light a candle. Feed your scrawny cat. Polish your dark house. Buy a new hat. Write odes, darn socks. Repair your crumbling stoop. Put a smile on your face. Pour out that sour soup. Move away from the mines, Far out by the bay. And I beg you, please, Throw that mirror away.

Babe, you've destroyed a car, burned down two buildings, stapled a guy's nuts, and you have sixteen stitches in your leg. Take a night off. Have a glass of wine, watch some television, and go to bed early. -Ranger

I am not menopausal. I just wanted half an hour alone. Is that too much to ask? A crappy half hour!

I kicked my shoes off, shuffled out of the black jeans and carted an armload of food into my bedroom. I switched the television on and crawled into bed with the channel changer. Do I know how to have a good time, or what?

It's not a good idea to mess with a woman who has a pimple

Throwing up is not a group activity

I've been under a lot of stress lately." "You know what I do when I got stress?" Lula said. "I go shoe shopping." "I knit," Connie said. "Get out!" Lula said. "I never knew you knit stuff." "I don't knit stuff," Connie said. "I just knit.