Quotes About Self-care

Hasta el mejor de los perros muerde cuando se cansa de que lo maltraten.

La mejor venganza es ser feliz.

You couldn't fight the tide or change the wind. And if there was a storm? Well, a girl should batten down and bail, not run the rigging. How could she help but make a mess of things, the state that she was in? She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .

In closing, she advised me to drink more water, get some sleep, and suggested that in the future I refrain from strenuous physical activity in a hot room the day after falling off a roof.

Don't put a spoon in your eye over it

Maybe I was waxing nostalgic, but that was certainly better than waxing my legs. I don't know how women do that—the legs, not the nostalgic part.

Just as we throw out our garbage, we need to cast out thoughts that are trashy.

I also made my bed every day, fixed my hair, applied my makeup, and washed the dishes. The result of being faithful in these small things was the restoration of my sense of worth and dignity. And proper placement restores order to one's surroundings, which in turn restores order to some of the brain's clutter.

No one on this earth is accountable to bring you what you need or want. It's not up to your wife or girlfriend to fill your emotional holes. That work is yours. Your boss isn't on the hook to provide a living for you. That's your job. It's not your minister's role to maintain your relationship with God. That's up to you. Your kids are yours to nurture, not yours to nurture you.

Women] who won't say no for fear of offending someone will be taken advantage of and possibly even led into sin by spiritually immature colleagues and clients. [...] Just keep saying no, graciously but firmly, even if they threaten to take their business elsewhere.

You have the freedom (and the responsibility) to rest. So take a nap.

You have to set limits with "getting there" people, or they will tend to take increasingly large amounts of the energy, time, money, and talent God gave you to accomplish his purposes.

Some women find it near impossible to rest because they equate taking a break with being selfish. But Jesus sequestered himself from others to get some much needed rest and refreshment. Drivers who push themselves too hard for too long become a hazard to others. You have the freedom (and the responsibility) to rest.

If a woman does marry, I suggest she has her own bed.

Thomas Merton once said that some of the most violent people he met were social activists, in what they did to themselves.

When in doubt ? any kind of doubt ? wash!

Nemá smysl zlobit se na n?koho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy.

Cannot the labourers understand that by over-working themselves they exhaust their own strength and that of their progeny, that they are used up and long before their time come to be incapable of any work at all, that absorbed and brutalized by this single vice they are no longer men but pieces of men, that they kill within themselves all beautiful faculties, to leave nothing alive and flourishing except the furious madness for work.

we alcoholics, when we are willing, can also learn a great deal by attending Al-Anon meetings.

Al-Anon members to live life comfortably and emotionally sober no matter what the alcoholic, or anyone else, is doing or not doing.

The best thing you can do for her is to be okay yourself. We're going to let her join us in recovery; we're not going to join her in her disease.

In order to maintain their sobriety, recovering alcoholics can not afford to let others control how they feel.

There is nothing wrong with leaving if you feel attacked. In fact, there are times when it's a good thing to do (see chapter 8). The damage comes from remaining passive and silent, absorbing the other person's criticism while your sense of personal power and self-esteem deteriorate.

didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it. get off the BP's back. get out of the BP's way. get on with your own life.