Stress And Life Quotes

• Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

  Hans Selye

  Stress, Survival, Getting Older

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• Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

  Bill Phillips

  Inspirational, Success, Powerful

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• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Success, Stress, Live Life

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• We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

  David Mamet

  Stress, Food, Pie

  David Mamet (2010). “Boston Marriage”, p.34, Knopf Group E-Books

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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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• The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Funny, Letting Go, Witty

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

  David Allen

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Theres a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Stress, Heart, Pay

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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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• Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

  Amy Alcott

  Life, Stress, Golf

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• Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Happy, Stress, Choices

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• Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Powerful

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.84, New World Library

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• Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it

  Steve Pavlina

  Stress, Believe, Tasks

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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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• 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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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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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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• Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  Dan Millman

  Stress, Mind, Resistance

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• Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

  Marilu Henner

  Stress, Control Of Your Life, Keys

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• Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Pain, Attitude

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• Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love

  Prem Prakash

  Pain, Stress, Anxiety

  Prem Prakash (1998). “The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras”, p.7, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

  Richard Carlson

  Inspirational, Stress, Relaxation

  Richard Carlson (2016). “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, p.161, Mango Media Inc.

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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