Quotes About Self-care

This summer is going to be a different summer for a lot of people. Everyone is going to take care of their own business and everyone is going to do what's best for them, including me.

The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

I am not a professional coach but I believe being healthy inside and out and cleansing your demons ... helps you perform better in business and become a more positive person.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

I took care of my body. Your body is your business in the NFL.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

Want to get more done? Keep meditation #1 on your to-do list.

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

The body is like a car: the older you become the more care you have to take care of it - and you don't leave a Ferrari out in the sun.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

Clean and restock your car at the end of each trip. No matter how tired you are, resist the temptation to let that empty muffin bag wait until mañana. Tomorrow turns into next week, next month.

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We

Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward other, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.

In cultivating loving-kindness, we learn first to be honest, loving, and compassionate toward ourselves.

If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others—what and whom we can work with, and how—becomes wider.

What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself. When you exchange yourself for others in the practice of tonglen, it becomes increasingly uncertain what is out there and what is in

A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

Learning not to cause harm to ourselves or others is a basic Buddhist teaching on the healing power of nonaggression.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

As adults, we can begin to cultivate a sense of loving-kindness for ourselves—by ourselves, for ourselves.