If you fail to take time for yourself, then the tiredness, exhaustion, and stress will build up and make you anxious and less productive. Hope these inspirational words about self-care will encourage you to balance work and leisure time. Short quotes about self-care When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.” – Kristin Neff We all are often busy looking after our loved ones, family, and friends. In the process, we tend to forget about our own selves. But self-care and self-love are as important as taking care of others. Your brain is like a computer, you have to refresh or it’s going to crash. I don’t [care] how great you are, you have to take a second.” – Missy Elliot One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder

Take responsibility for your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.” – Nathaniel Branden Instead of chasing money and things, what if you learned how to find internal happiness? What if you managed to connect with your inner self and your inner soul and find out what it needs? Take a minute to think about how different your day would be today if you actively decided to only do what makes your soul happy. What would your day look like? How would your inner self feel?A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – Haruki Murakami Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” – Ray Bradbury This awakened person completes his or her last journey by enjoying the remaining fruits of the Karma and in the end out from the play of the world and liberate from the world. For example, my husband hates getting up early. Sometimes our girls will wake him up at 5 am, and man does he complain about it. Instead of saying “I can’t stand when these kids wake me up so early!” he works really hard to say “I am so grateful that I get to spend this time with these beautiful souls”. We all make choices in life (some good and others not so good). Make the choice to be present in your life rather than letting it pass you by. Do what makes your soul happy, be present, and show up for those around you. #11. Make Value-Centric Choices

By speaking of ourselves in a positive and affirmative fashion and finding ways to eradicate self-hate, by speaking kindly about ourselves and around us, we can foster a sense of love and compassion powerful enough to restructure our society’s entire perspective of “body love.” – Jessamyn Stanley We spend our lives chasing happiness. However, we often end up distracted and looking for it in the wrong places. Corporations convince us to buy things that we don’t need to impress people that we don’t even like. And we work jobs we hate to make money that we think will bring us happiness. However, rather than focusing on pleasing others or collecting material goods, here I will show you how to do what makes your soul happy.

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Self-worth is so vital to your happiness. If you don’t feel good about yourself, it’s hard to feel good about anything else.” – Mandy Hale What we both have been blind of is that, we thought more things equal more happiness right? Wrong, that is never the case. The number of material things you have does not have anything to do with your happiness. The concept behind this mindset of us is that, when you are in a position you don’t like. You begin to think that you are unhappy because you haven’t hit that position you wants. So you then begin to look forward on your happiness when you hit that position.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” – William S Burroughs If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer

Practice Mindfulness:Be present in each moment, allowing yourself to fully engage in the activities and interactions that bring you joy and fulfillment. Mindfulness enhances our experiences, allowing our souls to shine brighter.

Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health — body, mind, and spirit.” – Laurie Buchanan, PhD So, I’ve been super passionate about our recent discussions with 2015 Businesswomen’s Hall of Fame Inductees, around confidence. Harmony begins within. If we are to influence the world around us, even in minor ways, the real work begins inside and emanates outwards.” – Gudjon Bergmann Our soul is like a soft and gentle flower, it needs to be nurtured, cared for, tended to, with sufficient sunlight, fresh air, and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This, my friend, is self-love.” – Miya YamanouchiYou are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breaths and you are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest.” – Morgan Harper Nichols A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews For example, imagine that you wanted to be a millionaire so that you could have tons of money and buy lots of stuff. Unless you hold money as a value, this would not be a value-centric goal. Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” – Beau Taplin