Stress Quotes - Page 2

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

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Leadership, Learning

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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, Choices, Happiness Is A Choice

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• If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Spiritual, Fear

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2013). “Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness”, p.521, Bantam

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• The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn't care if we're right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry - when we tell ourselves it's the healthy response - we pay for it just the same

  Howard Martin

  Healthy, Way, Body

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

  Hans Selye

  Inspirational, Anxiety, Physicians

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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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• The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  Mark Messier

  Inspirational, Hockey, Relaxation

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• If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

  William James

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

  Hans Selye

  Successful, Creative, Infection

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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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• When you realize that every stressful moment you experience is a gift that points you to your own freedom, life becomes very kind.

  Byron Katie

  Freedom, Kind, Realizing

  Byron Katie (2010). “Who Would You Be Without Your Story? (Large Print 16pt)”, p.330, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Breathing

  Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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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, Yoga

  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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• 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

  Mind, Resistance, Peaceful Warrior

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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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• Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

  Richard Carlson

  Business, Sweat, Stuff

  Richard Carlson (2002). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, Hachette UK

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• Being anxious, or in a painful rush of any kind, kills the possibility of meeting anyone with compassion

  Guy Finley

  Compassion, Kind, Painful

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Apr 23, 2014

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• I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

  Martin Short

  Life, Party, Treats

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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, Humor, Keys

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

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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

  Survival, Getting Older, Relief

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• For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Breakup, Relaxation

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

  Andrew Denton

  Pressure, Common, Cold

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Success, Summer

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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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