Quotes About Self-care

Clean up your own mess. Your mama don't live here

If I'm at a party where I'm not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

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Don't be closer to twice a friend's weight than to her actual weight," I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off obesity for more than two decades.

People who know I have social anxiety like to say things like: "You may not want to go out, but you should just force yourself. You'll be glad you did!" That is a lie.

In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".

Sometimes You Just Have to Put on Lip Gloss and Pretend to Be Psyched

can that be? You're not in good shape. And that is true! But this is the paradox of my life. I love running because it puts me in an instant good mood, and I think I read on the back of a box of Cheerios that it's good for my heart. But I also love alcohol, fast-food hamburgers, and eating gluten. So it's a perilous teeter-totter that I am trying to get away with until my doctors tell me I'm in trouble.

If there's something your partner does that makes your relationship too bad to stay in, and he acknowledges it, but he's in fact unwilling to do anything about it, and if his unwillingness has been clear for at least six months, you'll be happier if you leave.

But you can only give so much of yourself away before you lose yourself.

Remember, you don't have to make the whole world romantic, or even the whole bedroom. Just the small space in front of your face. A very manageable territory, even the working women will agree.

I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.

Junk food drags you down.

I offer the wisdom of the great American gastronome M.F.K. Fisher, who in The Art of Eating wrote, "No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

Many French women (moi included) believe that the right day to cut is on a full moon.

you must understand there is nothing noble in failing to discover and cultivate your pleasures. (It will make you not only fat, but grouchy.)

French women know one can go far with a great haircut, a bottle of champagne, and a divine perfume.

dressing well was also a sign of respect, for yourself and for others.

You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.

I have washed my soiled linen.

Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

The worst of getting old,' said Winnie, 'is the time one has to spend in patching oneself up.

Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.