self-care quotes

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Beware the hobby that eats.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Mind over mattress.

I like to feel blonde all over.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.