Stress Related Quotes

• 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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• My yoke is easy, and my burden light.

  Saint Boniface

  Bible, Jesus, Weary Heart

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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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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• How many people do you know who are obsessed with their work, who are type A or have stress related diseases and who can’t slow down? They can’t slow down because they use their routine to distract themselves, to reduce life to only its practical considerations. And they do this to avoid recalling how uncertain they are about why they live.

  James Redfield

  Stress, People, Routine

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.

  Viola Davis

  Stress, Feelings, Skins

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• Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Breathing, Panic Attacks

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• Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Puddles, Disease

  "Stress, Neurodegeneration and Individual Differences". Robert M. Sapolsky's lecture at Washington State University, October 10, 2001.

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• It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do.

  Richard Dawkins

  Stress, Thinking, People

  Faith and Reason - PBS, www.pbs.org.

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