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Quotes About Self-care

Seems to me that most relationship issues are solved with one thing: setting boundaries. See the problem for what it is, set a boundary, and follow through despite how hard the person tries to break the boundary and how much it hurts to hold fast.
~ Unknown
If I didn't have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.
~ Claire Cook
You have to stop looking for someone else to save you. Only you can do that for yourself.
~ Unknown
You who are suffering and read this, turn your attention to the way you think, not to your feelings. Come to terms with your attitude, and your feelings will look after themselves.
~ Claire Weekes
Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
~ Clarice Lispector
Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever—you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her.
~ Claudia Rankine
Another friend tells you you have to learn not to absorb the world. She says sometimes she can hear her own voice saying silently to whomever--you are saying this thing and I am not going to accept it. Your friend refuses to carry what doesn't belong to her. You take in things you don't want all the time. The second you hear or see some ordinary moment, all its intended targets, all the meanings behind the retreating seconds, as far as you are able to see, come into focus.
~ Claudia Rankine
Safeguard the health both of body and soul.
~ Cleobulus
Do not skip meals if you don't feel well. Fasting is only good when you live well with discipline.
~ Unknown
Being alone is being strong. In many ways it helps. The only thing that may not help is when you only listen to yourself and ignore everything around you.
~ Unknown
There is nothing wrong about laziness. Take time to relax. Laziness is only despising if it becomes a habit.
~ Unknown
The problem, as far as I can tell, is that women spend infinitely more time than men paying attention to, competing with, worrying about, everyone other than themselves.
~ Clinton Kelly
Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.
~ Clive Lewis
Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
~ Cobi Jones
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
~ Coco Chanel
Donít eat too many almonds; they add weight to the breasts.
~ Colette
Trudno zadowoli? jednocze?nie wszystkich i sam? siebie. Wol? zacz?? od siebie...
~ Colette
Today, I dressed my wound, and nursed my hurt in a sheltered place.
~ Colette
Regular elicitation of the Relaxation Response can prevent, and compensate for, the damage incurred by frequent nervous reactions that pulse through our hearts and bodies.
~ Herbert Benson
We cannot be damaged into health.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
This life is slow suicide, unless you read.
~ Herman Wouk
Do thyself no harm! for we are all here!
~ Hermann Broch
You look terrible,' said Saffy sternly. 'I always look terrible at two o'clock in the morning,' Mummy replied, splashing cold tap water on her face.
~ Hilary McKay
But one whose face has hard and rough skin, made harsh from the wind, should cook barley in water and, having strained that water through a cloth, should bathe his face gently with the moderately warm water. The skin will become soft and smooth, and will have a beautiful color. If a person's head has an ailment, it should be washed frequently in this water, and it will be healed. V.
~ Hildegard of Bingen