Martine Syms Quotes

I've learned to set boundaries and know when to say, 'I just need to rest.' I'm good at listening to what my body's telling me.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

Anything negative, I have to let go because it's too toxic for me.

I think it's just really good to be honest with yourself and if I'm not feeling up for something I have no problem staying in my room in ordering some food and relaxing and managing my energy and kind of just checking in with myself throughout the day.

If you're taking care of yourself, then what can somebody else tell you?

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

When you feel good is when you're not afraid to feel the worst.

We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

You need to feed yourself with emotions and life or you'll become empty.

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.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

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.

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

It's important to be gentle about my routines. I've learned that the hard way. When I'm really stressed out, I can take it out on my body and hurt myself. Sometimes I need to be as loving and soft with myself as possible. I've had to learn how to pay attention. It's a kind of mind-set.

Eliminating the things you love is not wellness. Wellness feeds your soul and makes you feel good.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.