Quotes About Self-care

Don't spend...but mend yourself...

You can't jump for the stars if your feet hurt, her aunt had once told her. And when you get where you're going, you darn well better look great!

Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.

Emotions, no matter how painful, are not the problem. The problem is dropping out of school or work, putting your family or duties or life on hold until such time as you can work out your emotional issues. Would you rather feel depressed while sitting alone in your room trying to figure it all out or feel depressed while getting your house cleaned or your project completed? (You may still feel depressed, but you have a cleaner house.)

I've gotten to the point where I'm not even a little apologetic about this business of not eating stuff that's bad for me. No one else has to live with my fat, work through my energy and mood swings, pay my doctor bills, fight my cravings, for face my family history of diabetes and cancer. If people insist, I can get a little testy.

One cannot be exploited or thwarted from nine to five, then come home and feel loving and lovable.

The art of soothing ourselves is a fundamental life skill. The theory holds that emotionally sound infants learn to soothe themselves by treating themselves as their caretakers have treated them, leaving them less vulnerable to the upheavals of the emotional brain.

Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.

one hears it a lot on airplanes:Make sure you have own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

But I just felt at one point that I was on a hamster wheel, you know? Just doing movie after movie and thinking so much about career related things and I think missing out on hanging with my friends and family as much I needed to.

Treat your career like a bad boyfriend. Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around.

"Work hard, nap hard."

Breathe in the good shit. Breathe out the bullshit.

Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You're strong. You got this. Take it day by day.

You don't let go of a bad relationship because you stop caring about them. You let go because you start caring about yourself.

It can be hard to forgive and let go but it's important to remember that harboring the resentment and holding a grudge can hurt you even more. The word "forgive" really means to give something up for yourself not for them.

Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.

Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.

If you allow people to make more withdrawls than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative before you know it.

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

Life will always get busy, make time to do the things you love.

Life is all about balance. You don't always need to be getting stuff done. Sometimes it's perfectly okey, and absolutely necessary, to shut down, kick back, and do nothing.