Quotes About Self-care

Nunca me esfuerzo en hacer algo que no me apetezca. Si me atasco hago otra cosa.

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Tuning in to an attitude of gratitude during times when we want to jump into bed and hide under the covers is the best way to feel better, inside and out.

Catching others' feelings is why some people think that they have too much empathy; they are overly sensitive to others' feelings and as a result can feel taken over, manipulated, conned, and so on. Sufficient boundary strength permits you to be empathic without experiencing the negative effects. Until

With our busy lives, for most of us, relaxation is not a priority. When to do nothing." I ask people in yoga classes what they do to relax, a common answer is our —J. B. Priestley contemporary types of "relaxation"—watching TV, competitive and spectator sports events, walking, reading, and so on.

Old elbows," she told me. "A woman's elbows always give her age away.

You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.

Happiness is not a reward. It's a consequence. You have to work at it every day.

We tend to think of happiness (and by happiness I also mean health or overall well-being)as a gift, and sometimes it is, a pure gratuity. But most of the time it comes about because you've done the work, prepared the ground to allow it in or tended it carefully once it has arrived. You have to practice happiness the way you practice the piano, commit to it the way you commit to going to the gym.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

He would say only slightly facetiously that the main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

The pedicure Regina executed herself. She wanted Betsey to feel relaxed and cared about. The way all little Negro girls should feel. Not cramped or out of place, or funny-looking or easy. Just lovely and well-loved.

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

You can learn to follow the inner self, the inner physician that tells you where to go. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.

Sometimes they need to prove to themselves that they still own themselves, that they can still care for themselves, that they still have things—customs—that are their own." "Sounds like an expression of the Human conflict," Aaor said. "It is," I agreed. "They're proving their independence at a time when they're no longer independent...

How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

On our planet, there are people. One people is a person. You are a person. You have a body. Look after it, as most bits don't grow back.