Selfey Quotes
Words worth keeping.
Thoughts on mind, body, rest, connection, joy and life.
Not every thought deserves a permanent room in your head.
Be gentle with yourself. You're doing the best you can.
Rest is not a reward for being productive. It's a requirement for being human.
You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.
Make time for the things that make you feel like you.
Boundaries are a form of self-respect.
Small steps every day create big change.
Protect your peace like your life depends on it.
The way you speak to yourself matters more than you think.
Be proud of how far you've come.
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress.
Sometimes the bravest thing is choosing yourself.
Your body is not another project to complete.
You are exactly where you need to be.
On the days you have almost nothing left, the plan is not to try harder. It's to need less of yourself.
Sometimes the most useful thing you can add to your life is one less thing.
Withdrawing is not a character flaw. It's usually a sign of how much you've been carrying.
A hard evening is often the sound of a child who held it together all day.
You don't have to earn the things you enjoy.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Rest is not idleness.
This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Feelings are mentionable and manageable.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.
Present moment, wonderful moment.
Enjoy your happiness, your peace, right in the present moment. Don't run.
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity.
Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Peace is every step.
Rest is a form of resistance because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Not all those who wander are lost.
Courage, dear heart.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
A normal day. Let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
You do not have to be good.
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
I dwell in Possibility.
Forever is composed of nows.
We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things fall away in the face of death.
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