Quotes about Self-care

Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money.

Give yourself time just to be with yourself.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

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.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. You can't fill up when you're holding your breath. And writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.

Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more generous, which is the ultimate healing? Or more patient, which is a close second? Did your world become bigger and juicier and more tender? Have you become ever so slightly kinder to yourself? This is how you tell.

If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.