Quotes About Self-care

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.

Overloaded with stress, we often make expedient decisions that may not be in our long-term best interest.

You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...

She doesn't rebuke herself for thinking it; she does herself the small kindness of forgiving her malfunctioning logic.

It's a luxury to slough the dust of the road off your skin, to soap up and stand beneath a spray of warm water, to watch it pool at your feet, grimy and brown, before it circles the drain and disappears forever.

Lydia siempre ha sido una madre devota, pero nunca codependiente, como esas madres que extrañan a sus hijos cuando están en la escuela o cuando duermen. Siempre atesoró ese tiempo para sí, para habitar sus propios pensamientos y descansar del incesante clamor emocional de la maternidad.

Lydia's always been a devoted mother, but she's never been the codependent kind who misses her child when he goes to school or to sleep. She's always treasured that time to herself, to inhabit her own thoughts, to have a break from the nonstop emotional clamoring of motherhood.

You have the power to treat your own pain, and you can do it without surgery, drugs, or other invasive interventions.

Eating ice cream and not exercising is great. The downside is your health isn't so good.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

up in the morning, go to the bathroom, pee, brush your teeth, look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. Do it every morning to start off the day, as a practice.

Considering all that competes for your time and attention, if you don't actively take steps to simplify your life and carve out what I call "breathing space," you will most certainly find yourself in a perpetual state of overwhelm.

No one chooses to be overwhelmed, but they sure as heck allow it to happen.

If one intended to pamper oneself, she had long believed, half measures weren't worth the trouble.

Every morning write down three new things you're grateful for. Journal for two minutes a day about a positive experience from the past 24 hours. Meditate daily for a few minutes. At the start of every day, write an email to someone praising or thanking them. Get fifteen minutes of simple cardio exercise a day.

The greatest gift you could ever give yourself is also the wisest business investment you could ever make. It is also the most critical step in accomplishing any challenging task, and is the one step without which all other success strategies, no matter how brilliant or time-tested, are doomed to fail. What is this mysterious gift? It is your own personal development. Investing in your own improvement, your own personal growth and betterment, is all these things and more.