Do What Makes Your Soul Shine: Inspiring Quotes to Help You Live Your Best Life

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Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.” – Vironika Tugaleva Self-care when you feel overwhelmed: Get some fresh air; Say no to something; Take a nap; Brain dump your thoughts; Meditate on the truth; Talk to a friend; Take a break; Ask for help.” Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Princess Diana

In a world filled with technology and distractions, it’s so easy to spend most of your day disconnected from people and connected to your phone, computer, or some other form of technology. It has become harder and harder to disconnect from work, technology, and other distractions to be truly present in what we are doing. To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.” – Michelle Obama To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierigac True self-care is no bath salts and chocolate cake, it’s making the choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from.” – Brianna Wiest Sometimes when I have a couple minutes, I like to just scroll through my newsfeed. (I probably shouldn’t) But you come across all kinds of things: Funny videos of babies, memes, and sometimes the odd inspirational quote. (I don’t care for cat videos) :/

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If you’re not taking care of yourself, you won’t be in the position to take care of others. Be selfish with yourself.” Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown Soul or supreme soul is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent God running the whole world and making this play live. Where is God?

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 MatthewsThe most important progress and success can’t be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.” – Brittany Burgunder Self-care is more than a catchphrase and it’s more than important; it’s critical. Taking time out for ourselves helps to prevent burnout, increases our good health, decreases symptoms of depression, and so much more. Besides, as a caregiver, I couldn’t care for someone else as I do if I didn’t take time out for taking care of myself.” – Gloria Kraegel Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.” – Karl Lagerfeld

I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff

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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 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 Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball When we care for ourselves as our very own beloved—with naps, healthy food, clean sheets, a lovely cup of tea— we can begin to give in wildly generous ways to the world, from abundance.” – Anne Lamott The Universe will never require you to set yourself on fire to provide heat for others.” – Clyde Lee Dennis