Quotes About Self-care

If you wish to keep as well as possible, the less you think about your health the better.

My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

If I want to live my ability to be fully present and compassionate, my ability to be with it all—the joy and the sorrow—I must find the ways, the people, the places, the practices that support me in being all I truly am. I must cultivate ways of being that let me feel the warmth of encouragement against my heart when it is weary.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

By Taking Care of Yourself, You're Taking Care Of Someone Else

We need to be in touch with our bodies; with what feels good, what feels not so good and what feels wrong.

Every child has to raise itself.

The only way I can assure myself of the best possible future is to live as well as I can today.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat — in other words, turn you into an adult.

And being mean? It takes energy. As in, you wake up in the morning and you've got only so much energy for the day, and being mean just sucks it right out of you. It's exhausting.

I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day.

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

Don't get me wrong. I'm happy to be your morning lollipop, but I need to eat, too.

If I ever have a baby, I'm going to have a Brazilian wax first. Keep it pretty, you know?" "Honey, when you've got an eight-pound object coming out of your cooter, the last thing you're going to care about is how it looks.

When life sucks, eat cookies.

Yet the French have managed to be involved without becoming obsessive. They assume that even good parents aren't at the constant service of their children, and that there's no need to feel guilty about this. "For me, the evenings are for the parents." one Parisian mother tells me. "My daughter can be with us if she wants, but it's adult time.

She'll thank you when she's thirty and can still fit into her high school jeans.

The child must not invade the parents' whole universe . . . for family balance, the parents also need personal space,

Jos on vain lakannut kiinnittämästä huomiota ja syönyt kakkua, tuntuu helpommalta antaa itselleen anteeksi ja syödä tiedostavasti taas seuraavalla aterialla.

Dressing like a shapeless blob is bad for morale (yours and your mate's; possibly even the baby's). Invest strategically in a few flattering maternity clothes. Then convert cardigans and leggings from your closet into pregnancy gear and brighten your face with lipstick and colored scarves. Attention to these details signals that you are not graduating from "femme" to "maman." You'll be both.

It's not enough for French mothers to have pleasures and interests apart from their children. They also want their kids to know about these things. They believe it's burdensome for a child to feel that she's the sole source of her mother's happiness and satisfaction. (A Parisian mother I know told me she was going back to work partly for her daughter's sake.)