Quotes About Self-care

When you have to start compromising yourself or your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.

Use romantic relationships to grow, not to lose yourself. Keep your priorities in order.

Delete resentment in your heart. The person you're MAD at might have moved on, and they're not even thinking about you anymore. So, your anger isn't hurting them, it's hurting YOU.

therapy and its medications are a luxury.

Denial is sometimes the only comfort you can offer yourself. Because once you let yourself feel, the misery is endless.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Create your own permission slip for joy. Write three words: Accept. Adapt. Depend. Carry this permission slip with you. Tell your friends you're working on becoming more content, more joyful. Take a nap. Live with a messy house for a time. Order takeout. File an extension on your taxes. Stare out the window. Linger in the company of a friend. Breathe in the fullness of life. Use those words to fight back with joy.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.

the average U.S. woman will spend $ 55,000 on her hair in her lifetime.

She runs her tongue over her teeth as she walks out the door, and feels an edge, something needing to be filed down before she bites her tongue. Dentist. Manicure. Makeup. Hair salon. She tastes blood, swallows it, pops a mint into her mouth. Small repairs. There's no woman alive who hasn't found the occasional hole in heaven, and carefully, meticulously, covered it back up.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

She makes her little house to shine, she thought.

smarter than me. But here's the thing my life did get better. I made a decision to let go of my dreams, because they were killing me, and I stopped asking the impossible of myself. I changed my attitude and decided to focus on what I had rather than what i didn't have.

There comes a time when you must get the care and love that maybe you shied from showing others.

Really, you don't have to—

You don't feel like you're hurting yourself when you're cutting. You feel like this is the only way to take care of yourself.

Lack of time is a real health killer.

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

I have limits. Perhaps I can stretch them. But respecting them, I have learned, is generally wiser than pretending they're not there. Because I don't have all the time in the world, I have this whole hour, this day. The duration of one cup of coffee. The time it takes to listen to one more winding sentence or to stay with a child on her slow way to sleep.

When trapped in a constant state of negative over-stimulation, anxiety becomes the norm in our lives. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label