"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
- Bertrand Russell
"The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
- Albert Einstein
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
- Marcus Aurelius
"How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish."
Catherine Pulsifer, from My Story
"Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche."
Andrew Denton
"Stress is not what happens to us.
It's our response TO what happens.
And RESPONSE is something we can choose."
Maureen Killoran
"When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question:
Will this matter in 5 years from now?
If yes, then do something about the situation.
If no, then let it go."
Catherine Pulsifer
"Even to much sunshine can be devasting, while only with rain can growth occur. Accept both as part of the growing process in the garden of life."
Donald S. Neviaser
“Stress is simply the adaptation of our bodies and minds to change; and change, as we noted, is about the only constant left in the workplace.”
Peter G. Hanson, M.D.
"Don't sweat the small stuff... and it's all small stuff."
Richard Carlson
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
Author Unkown
Give your stress wings and let it fly away. ~Carin Hartness
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You
The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~Author Unknown
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. ~Joshua L. Liebman
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. ~Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. ~Bill Watterson,Calvin and Hobbes
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ~Bertrand Russell
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way. ~Douglas Pagels, These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply? ~Carrie Latet
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. ~Jennifer Yane
There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. ~H.L. Mencken
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
~William Henry Davies
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop,Fables
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola
Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com
Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries. ~Astrid Alauda
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. ~Spanish Proverb
To be "on edge," you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center. ~Carrie Latet
Stress is poison. ~Agavé Powers
I try to avoid stress - it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent." ~Berri Clove
If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched. ~Adabella Radici
Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax. ~Hartman Jule
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life. ~Robert Maclver
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. ~J. Lubbock
Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world. ~Carrie Latet
When I look at my hands and in my heart, I see stress as Lady Macbeth saw blood. ~Berri Clove
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. ~George Jean Nathan
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. ~Etty Hillesum
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