"Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel."
"There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future."
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Source: Eleanor Brown (2011). “The Weird Sisters”, p.337, Penguin
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