Anne Lamott Quotes

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

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.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

The biggest thing I've had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind... I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.

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.

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.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

My book, 'The Total Me-Tox,' is about self-care and self-love and how they lead to success and empowerment. My goal is to encourage women to be their best selves in a warm, friendly way. Think human, not superhuman.

I think alone time is good to know how to be alone with your own thoughts. I think it just helps you kind of be a better, more grounded person.

I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.

Self-love means something. I thought it was all a joke for a long time. It's really important. Giving yourself a break is really important.

You've got to tune out the other people and tune in to what's going on inside. Love yourself. Nourish your body.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.

I said that love heals from inside.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

I think part of a beauty routine is how you feel and checking in with your inner self, and so I made that commitment to myself to do that.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?

Go on and love yourself, cause everything's gonna be alright.