Stress Relief Quotes

• 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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• Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

  Bryan Kest

  Relationship, Patience, Gratitude

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• Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Stress, Abundance

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Nov 18, 2015

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• Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

  Charles Duhigg

  Change, Fitness, Patience

  "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

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• Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Success, Trust, Sympathy

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.35, Basic Books

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• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  Yanni

  Life, Motivational, Music

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Stress, Heart

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.94, Penguin

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• There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  The New York Times Magazine, June 01, 1969.

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• Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.

  Tim Ryan

  Stress, Past, Space

  Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

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• Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

  Robert Tisserand

  Stress, Caring, Hands

  Robert Tisserand (1988). “Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body”, Lotus Press (WI)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Stress, Self, Expression

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• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  Hans Selye

  Positive, Happiness, Attitude

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

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety

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• Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Leadership, Stress

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Stress, Earth, Forget

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Sports, Religious, Stress

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, www.businessinsider.com. December 29, 2011.

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• Live with the objective of being happy.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Diversity

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.

  Steve Carell

  Dream, Live Life, Office

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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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• Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

  Susan Mitchell

  Success, Stress, Feelings

  Susan Mitchell, Catherine Christie (1998). “I'd Kill for a Cookie: A Simple Six-Week Plan to Conquer Stress Eating”, Plume

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• 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, Baron George

  Success, Stress, Anxiety

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