Quotes About Self-care

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it.

Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

?uvaj se mržnje, da ne pogriješiš prema sebi i prema ljudima. ?uvaj se žalosti, da ne pogriješiš prema Bogu

Nemamo prava da i od koga zahtijevamo da brine naše brige.

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!

Self-preservation is as important as generosity. Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

They should hand out vibrators if they're going to demand so much of you that you can't find time for a private life.

The men she met all seemed to say they were "several years out of Wesleyan." Their beds were never made, or else made poorly, when she climbed into them. No one yet had the time or inclination to take care of themselves, and it was unclear when that would ever begin.

Because if you don't preserve yourself, keep enough for yourself, then of course you have nothing to give.

Bone didn't know yet that the men who own the world don't get to do that by being magnanimous and overly interested in other people. They get to do it by taking care of themselves along the way. They stoke the fire of their own reputations, and sometimes other people come by, asking: What's that you're doing there? Oh, stoking the fire of my reputation. Can I help? Certainly. Go get some wood.

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.

My childhood was so inconsistent that I never expected normalcy, and it's enough for me to be able to have time and space to be good to myself and the people around me. Children are nice, but I decided to save myself instead.

I decided to take the love I'd have for a child and give it to myself instead.

Children exhaust us, even the ones we love most. Our solitude is the most valuable thing we have, and we cherish it above most other things and work hard to maintain it.