self-care quotes

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

I just don’t have time to get old!

I never do anything that I don’t want to do.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I like to take it easy.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Don’t program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I’m tender on the inside.