Quotes about Self-care

If you stop thinking that you must change the world, you lift a tremendous burden off yourself and the people around you. There's no longer this convenient excuse for why it has to be all work all the time. The opportunity to do another good day's work will come again tomorrow, even if you go home at a reasonable time.

Yet somehow it's still frequently seen as heroic to sacrifice yourself, your health, and even your ability to do your job just to prove your loyalty to THE MISSION. Fuck the mission. No mission (in business, anyway) is worthy of such dire personal straits.

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

Your skin is like a plant. You have to water it. Make sure it's hydrated, not just squeaky clean.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

Everyone says to hydrate on the plane, but I don't.

I have found that most meal plans will work, simply because it causes us to become more aware as we eat.

Between 2008 and 2010 I exhausted myself because I wanted to please everyone.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Over the course of my 13-year career, I've had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I'm no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.