Quotes About Self-care

Always make yourself happy first, so that you can share that happiness with those you love. Put yourself first for your own better judgments and well being.

It is absolutely vital to put the pain behind you and move forward with your life and love. Otherwise, you are giving away your power to the people who hurt you.

What I've learned in life... Love - but not too much. Give but leave something for yourself. Fight - but learn to let go. Cry - but try to move on. And most of all... Don't overuse your heart in loving someone. Sometimes we need to use our brain, to stop the pain.

Before you can give love and affection to someone, you have to be immersed with self love and acceptance.

Give but don't allow yourself to be used. Love but don't allow your heart to be abused. Trust, but don't be naive. Listen to others, but don't lose your voice.

Let your heart be free, reject negativity, engage in love, happiness a & laughter, respect yourself and walk the path you had been made for.

If you plant your own seeds in your garden you won't have to see what someone else is growing, because you will be to busy showing love to your own.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Love is what you make it. Unfortunately, I cant make it today, as I have a doctors appointment

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if youre not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

Dont sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much theres nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

the act of smiling can itself make you happy. It

Keeping a stiff upper lip may be needed while around the person invalidating you, but on your own, there is every reason to be compassionate and self-­soothing. It does hurt to be invalidated.

No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

If we become skilled at giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy that then enables us to be present with the other person.

I scream nonviolently by calling attention to my own desperate needs and pain in the moment.

In this stage, which I refer to as emotional slavery, we believe ourselves responsible for the feelings of others. We think we must constantly strive to keep everyone happy. If they don't appear happy, we feel responsible and compelled to do something about it. This can easily lead us to see the very people who are closest to us as burdens.

The way that other people judge me is none of my business.

I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.

This body is a loaner I'll have to give back at some point and how I treat it will play a part in how long I get to use it and how much use I get out of it. That has really hit home lately. But I don't need to do any of it perfectly, or as well as it seems someone else is doing, or even great every single day. I just have to try and occasionally ask myself, is this still what you want? And then adapt, change and head out again.

Don't stand when you can sit; don't sit when you can lie down.

He suspected, given her editorial experience, that she was in her fifties, but she had been coiffed, massaged, starved, and sunlamped down to forty.

Loving yourself is good for your health.