Quotes about Self-care

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to be doesn't stand a chance.

Until we heal the child we used to be, the adult we want to becdoesn't stand a chance.

The majority of diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by ignorance of their own organic laws. They seem indifferent in regard to the matter of health, and work perseveringly to tear themselves to pieces, and when broken down and debilitated in body and mind, send for the doctor and drug themselves to death.

If we are sick, we impose a weary tax upon our friends, and unfit ourselves for discharging our duties to our families and to our neighbors.

In my case, the attention deficit was all mine. I had moved to the country in order to lie down in more blessed fields, to live closer to the Divine Presence that had held me all my life, but I had once again become so busy caring for the household of God that I neglected the One who had called me there. If I still had plenty of energy for the work, that was because feeding others was still my food. As long as I fed them, I did not feel my hunger pains.

Self-compassion is how we recover.