Stress Quotes

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Stress is a form of suffering. Look at your body and see what stress does to the body and its functions - what it does to the heart, the circulation, the immune system, the digestive function, the liver.

When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'

Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body.

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.

Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't.

My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you.

If I knew where creativity came from, I'd probably be a lot less stressed about coming up with new stories.

Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.

Are you stressed? Are you so busy getting to the future that the present is reduced to a means of getting there? Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there" or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside. To create and live with such an inner split is insane. The fact that everybody else is doing it doesn't make it any less insane.

Today's accent may be on youth, but the stress is still on the parents.

You can be effective in this world without stress.

The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do; and yet how much is not done by us!

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

It seems like we wake up and it's a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, 'What the hell am I doing?'

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

Have a sense of humor to break the tension in times of great toil.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

When there is too much stress or worry, look within.

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

New York traffic can drive you crazy.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

If you make a fist and hold it for two hours, you won't be able to pick up a glass because you'll be so weak. Let's stay loose. Let's have fun.

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other

I'm a great supporter of transcendental meditation. I've been using it for almost 40 years now - and I think it's a great tool for anyone to have, to be able to utilize as a tool for stress. Stress, of course, comes with almost every business. I think there are enough studies out there that show that TM is something that could benefit anybody. It's a great system to use. Otherwise, why would I've been doing it for all these years, for almost half of my life?