Quotes About Self-care

Eating well. Exercising well. Sleeping well and loving generously. All of these things slow us down and bring us stillness, revealing and enabling this wise part of ourselves.

Right intention says essentially: treat yourself and others with kindness and compassion while living in alignment with your deepest values.

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

Learn to start each day by smiling inwardly to your vital organs and thanking them for sustaining your life.

Each of us is ultimately responsible for our own psychological well-being, happiness, and success in life. As much as we might wish good things for one another, we really do not have the ability to create mental stability, well-being, or happiness for someone else.

We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then we'll get the results we've been looking for—and sooner than we expect.

I know compulsive napping sounds like a contradiction in terms but it is not. I also call them panic naps. A panic nap usually comes on with an exacerbated declaration of: "Fuck, I gotta … goddamnit … I can't think about … shit, I'm tired.

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

that form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves...

Talking about depression is great and healthy, but that doesn't mean it's not exhausting.

So take a breath and find what is unsolved in your heart. Breathe in patience, breathe in love. Love yourself bountiful. And send that love out to others. When you send love out from the bountifulness of your own love, it reaches other people. This love is the deepest power of prayer.

do not damage yourselves By attending only at the hungry altar Of regret and anger and guilt.

Sometimes, it is easy to be generous outward, to give and give and give and yet remain ungenerous to yourself. You lose the balance of your soul if you do not learn to take care of yourself. You need to be generous to yourself in order to receive the love that surrounds you.

refuse to begin can be an act of great self-neglect.

I remember how at night I didn't have slow, sweet talks, but merely rushed the children to bed so I could have more time to myself.

I'm pretty good at being okay. If nothing

She bought all new underwear. She had a horror of being found dead with mended or, worse, unmended underclothes.

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor.

I'm rich! I don't mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That's rich.

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

One very important domain of our lives and experience that we tend to miss, ignore, abuse, or lose control of as a result of being in the automatic pilot mode is our own body.

A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation—to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

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