self-care quotes

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

It’s very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

Never get out of bed before noon.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

It is important to remember yourself.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.