Quotations about Stress
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
~Aesop, Fables
Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.
~Astrid Alauda
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.
~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
~George F. Burns
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
~Richard Carlson
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
~Chinese Proverb
I try to avoid stress - it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent."
~Berri Clove
When I look at my hands and in my heart, I see stress as Lady Macbeth saw blood.
~Berri Clove
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
~William Henry Davies
There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
~Dr. James C. Dobson
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
~Peter Drucker
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
~Margaret Fuller
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
~Natalie Goldberg
When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan's Cathedral. In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms. This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment. ~Steven Halpern
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. ~Etty Hillesum
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
~Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris
In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
~Horace
The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
~Elbert Hubbard
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
~Lee Iacocca
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
~Jerome K. Jerome
There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.
~Garson Kanin
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
~Milan Kundera
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ~Doug Larson
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
~Carrie Latet
Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world.
~Carrie Latet
To be "on edge," you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center.
~Carrie Latet
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
~Joshua L. Liebman
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
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
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
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone. ~Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie
Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.
~Christopher Morley
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
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
~Ovid
Stress is the trash of modern life - we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
~Danzae Pace
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
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
Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
~John De Paola
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
~Sylvia Plath
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
Stress is poison.
~Agavé Powers
If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched.
~Adabella Radici
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~Will Rogers
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
~Bertrand Russell
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
~Spanish Proverb
Future shock [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
~Alvin Toffler
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
~Lily Tomlin
There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
~H.M. Tomlinson
Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven't fallen asleep yet.
~author unknown
Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it.
~author unknown
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
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
~Bill Watterson
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
~Jennifer Yane