Stress Quotes

Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

Stress is a form of suffering.

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry.

There are times when I'm caught up in everything and I have to say to myself, "Please feel good; please feel better; everything's okay; you're fine; things aren't falling apart; take a second; get back to a place where you realize that you don't actually have real problems." That happens. You never know when those tables are gonna turn... For me, confidence is something that can come crashing down in one second.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Worry is interest paid before it's due.

A good executive goes around with a worried look on his assistants.

The whole world accepts that being stressed is the normal way to live.

Rush, that most exciting perversion of life, the necessity of accomplishing something in less time than should be truly allowed for its doing.

Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.

It's normal to feel pain in your hands and feet, if you're using your feet as feet and your hands as hands. And for a human being to feel stress is normal - if he's living a normal life. And if it's normal, how can it be bad?

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Worry is a complete waste of energy. It solves nothing.

Of course, most of the people in this world are stressed, and most of those who are not stressed are totally bored!

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

People are amazed to realize they can enjoy the moment rather than be stressed by it when hurrying to an appointment. You can enjoy the energy movement of the moment when you do not have a mental projection of a future moment you need to get to. You still know that you need to get there, but it is the secondary consideration.

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

The only thing that feeling bad accomplishes is to plummet you into anxiety, despair, depression, and stress. In such situations, ask yourself in that moment what THOUGHT you can have that will make you feel GOOD!

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

Oh, Instagram stresses me out on a very deep level!

Getting stressed and struggling to change the outcome of any past event is like arguing with an echo to make it see your point of view.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

Unquiet meals make ill digestions.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

Here's a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don't sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it's all small stuff.

Stress means there is something wrong, and you are not aligned with life.

The source of our stress isn't really difficulties, circumstances and situations-it's our attitude and approach toward them.

We had to be to the stadium at six o'clock for home games, and traffic was so bad it would take us an hour and fifteen or an hour and thirty minutes to drive. So now I'm sitting in a car for almost an hour and a half and I'm very tense. I'm worried about the traffic. So I started smoking a cigar going to the games.

No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.

We're all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there's no one who is going to escape that. That's the one thing, rich or poor, I don't care who you are, you're going to lose.

As long as you have a set of beliefs or lack of skills that make you feel you have at the effect of life, you're going to have enormous stress and the quality of your life will go down.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

We live in a time-crunched world, and just about everything we do seems to be urgent.