Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
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.
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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.
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
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