Self Care Quotes - Page 3

[G]rowing into your future with health and grace and beauty doesn’t have to take all your time. It rather requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is. (267-268)

In most families, care-giving becomes the woman's responsibility. While care-giving can enrich you, it can also deplete you if you don't have support or make time for self care.

Love yourself. Be true to yourself.

Be cheerful!

Good well-being leads to good working performance.

You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when?

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

Be you, love you. All ways, always.

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform.

Self Care is the secret ingredient to Soldier care in a recipe that yields many servings of effective leadership.

Sometimes you just need to be selfish to be self-sufficient.

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.

The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice.

Good music, good life.

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.

Let those feelings out. Talk about it. Even if you’re talking to your journal by yourself in an empty room. That still counts. That still matters.If you know someone who’s struggling and isolated, help them talk about it. Even if they don’t have the right words. Even if you sit in silence as they try to feel safe. Even if they shower you with complaints, excuses, and justifications. Even if you can see they’re just playing small, being irrational, blaming circumstances. Just be there. It all counts. It all matters.

When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to under-stand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at yourself this way?

Dating from the place of internal emotional safety tells your being that you will care for it well.

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.

Love yourself. Care for your body. You are God’s image.