Quotes About Self-care

We might have to, sometimes, be brave enough to switch the screens off in order to switch ourselves back on. To disconnect in order to reconnect.

If we were happier with our bodies, we'd be kinder to them.

But by not taking it, I became very in tune with myself. This helped me know what exactly made me feel better (exercise, sunshine, sleep, intense conversation, etc.) and this alertness, an alertness I know from myself and others can be lost via pills, eventually helped me build myself back up from scratch. If I had been dulled or felt that otherness meds can make you feel, things might have been harder.

We need to build a kind of immune system of the mind, where we can absorb but not get infected by the world around us.

C'è un solo cantuccio dell'universo che uno può esser certo di rendere migliore, e questo è il proprio io.

I am pro anything that works and I know pills do work for a lot of people. There may well come a time in the future where I take pills again. For now, I do what I know keeps me just about level. Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things. I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

there has never been such a plethora of advice on looking good. We are constantly bombarded with diet books,.. and there are ever more digital apps and filters to enhance what the products can't.

There is no shame in disconnecting.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

This might explain why rates of obesity are themselves dangerously rising. If we were happier with our bodies, we'd be kinder to them.

It is better to let people down than to blow yourself up.

I stacked the days up like Jenga blocks, imagining I was making progress, and then—crash—along would come a five-hour panic attack or a day of total apocalyptic darkness, and those Jenga days would topple back down again.

So we need, more than ever, to know how to edit the world, so it can never break us down.

mental well-being counts as much as physical well-being—indeed, that it is part of physical well-being.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

For now, I do what I know keeps me just about level. Exercise definitely helps me, as does yoga and absorbing myself in something or someone I love, so I keep doing these things. I suppose, in the absence of universal certainties, we are our own best laboratory.

You ,as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love , your affection & your respect . Until you value yourself, no-one else will . Never be bullied into silence. Love yourself first and everything else will fall into line.

There will be tough times—there are for everyone. There will be times of fear and trembling. There will be times of discouragement and disillusionment. Have courage, smile, keep your chin up, laugh often, be kind to yourself, stay focused, be gracious and appreciative, think happy thoughts, and carry on regardless.

If you don't break from the tensions of daily living, they will break you.

Four words: Be gentle with yourself. It turns out they are some of the wisest words anyone has ever shared with me.

Be gentle with yourself, be gentle with others, and never stop striving to be all that God created you to be: the-very-best-version-of-yourself.

when you do for them what they should be doing for themselves, you create entitlement and dependency rather than empowerment.

The secret is to stretch yourself, but not so much that you break.