May Sarton Quotes

Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.

I love my journal as much as I love my phone. I find it to be a big part of my self-care to reflect on my day and write words that inspire me or paste business cards and pictures.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time.

The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to have returned to the world of apples, the orchards of Heaven. Perhaps I should take my problems to a shrink, or perhaps I should enjoy the apples that I have, streaked with color like the evening sky.

We should do three things every day of our life. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is to think, we should spend some time in thought. And, number three is you should have your emotions moved to tears.

My diary seems to keep me whole.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always thought it very important to be happy inside. There's a lot of bad things happening in the world, but it's important to try to stay happy and appreciate what you've got, and don't look externally for the happiness.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it's been great.

Happiness is an inside job.

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

I used to be a stressed-out person. I'm not anymore. I try to find the lining in everything in life.

I want to love myself and love my life.

I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.