Quotes About Self-care

Fake hair? Fake nails? Someone touching my feet? Oh, God, they were going to paint my toenails pink, weren't they?

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

when your knees become fatter than your legs, start eating again.

I don't want to spend my time rescuing you from awkward situations.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

sometimes you have to be the grown-up of your life and tell your inner child, who is kicking and screaming, "Get your shoes on. This is not optional. We have a play date.

Since the big things find you no matter where you are, it's okay to unhook from your portable news source so you're not in the middle of what's happening every minute of the day. It doesn't mean you don't care; it means you care about yourself too.

There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course."

He had not felt loved by his mother and had experienced difficulty in receiving love since, so he didn't have some of the healing vectors that can counteract traumatic events. He had resources to help others but not the resources to save himself.

It is not easy to give of yourself if you still have many unmet needs.

The more you have a sense that you can and will take care of your needs, the less you need these kinds of defensive ways of maintaining boundaries.

Sa?l?kl? öfkeye verilebilecek güzel bir örnek, bir ?ekilde sayg?s?zl?k ya da taciz içeren bir olay meydana geldi?inde, öfkenin gelip, "Bu do?ru de?il," demesidir. Öfke bunun icin vard?r - yani gerekli olan s?n?rlar? yaratmak için.

Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.

If you are currently in a relationship in which you are also willing to 'do anything to make him happy,' even at your own expense, I want you to stop reading our book. Mark this page, close the book, and hit yourself over the head with it. Then continue reading.

What's worse is that long hours, excessive busyness, and lack of sleep have become a badge of honor for many people these days. Sustained exhaustion is not a badge of honor, it's a mark of stupidity.

Fuck that. People should be missing out! Most people should miss out on most things most of the time. That's what we try to encourage at Basecamp. JOMO! The joy of missing out.

It's not worth trading sleep for a few extra hours at the office. Not only will it make you exhausted, it'll literally make you stupid

Ask yourself: When was the last time you had three or even four completely uninterrupted hours to yourself and your work?

Yet somehow it's still frequently seen as heroic to sacrifice yourself, your health, and even your ability to do your job just to prove your loyalty to THE MISSION. Fuck the mission. No mission (in business, anyway) is worthy of such dire personal straits.

In the long run, work is not more important than sleep.

El nuevo lujo es el lujo de la libertad y el tiempo.

Not only is this workaholism unnecessary, it's stupid. Working more doesn't mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more. Workaholics wind up creating more problems than they solve. First off, working like that just isn't sustainable over time. When the burnout crash comes—and it will—it'll hit that much harder.