Relaxation And Stress Quotes

• For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Breakup, Stress

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• Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Success, Wisdom

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Appreciation

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• 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.

  Etty Hillesum

  Appreciation, Prayer, Stress

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.305, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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 Burns

  Funny, Stress, Humor

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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  Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Time

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.12, Hamilton Books

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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

  William James

  Happiness, Fear, Stress

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• It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Decision, Relaxation

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Letting Go, Wisdom, Simple

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

  Aesop

  Peace, Stress, Food

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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• Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

  A. A. Milne

  Happiness, Being Happy, Retirement

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• Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.

  Brian Tracy

  Peace, Goal, Humanity

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 23, 2015

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• Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Stress, Ideas, Cells

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• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Witty, Retirement

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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Stress, Humor

  Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

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• There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Spiritual, Health

  "Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch, Yoga Journal, Issue 11, pp. 18-20, November - December 1976.

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• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Work, Stress

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

  Margaret Fuller

  Funny, Life, Meaningful

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Peace, Clever, Relaxation

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.143, Macmillan

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