Quotes about Self-care

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.

Kindness toward others and radical kindness to ourselves buy us a shot at a warm and generous heart, which is the greatest prize of all.

Take care of yourselves; take care of one another.

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.

when you've come to the end of yourself and you don't get it, take a nap, have a good meal, and lean in for the gentle whisper of God.

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

Focus on loving the life you have now in the body you've got!