Quotes About Stress

I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

Slumburbia has also given rise to a new form of poverty: the amount of time people have to spend in their cars driving from one part-time job to another. The more time you waste in traffic, the likelier you are to suffer from hypertension, diabetes, stress and obesity. A life spent in the car is bad for your life expectancy. As we have seen, it can also play havoc with your political state of mind.

worry results from a heightened sense of vulnerability in the presence of a diminished sense of power.

Worry becomes what attention turns into when it isn't focused on some task.

Trapped in the past or future in the DMN, you're likely to abandon projects you once started with enthusiasm, make careless mistakes, or, worse, fall into a state of misery and despair, for no good reason whatsoever. All

The paper is due in five days" becomes "It's not due now," and the five days might as well be five months.

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish proverb

Worry is a special form of fear. To create worry, humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination, and fuel it with emotion.

Adults with ADD associate so much anxiety with beginning a task, due to their fears that they won't do it right, that they put it off, and off, which, of course, only adds to the anxiety around the task.

faster in areas of our life where effort and striving are, in fact, profoundly counterproductive. This is because the problem of choking or freezing up extends

What a burden it is to feel responsible for everything. The weight of the world drags you down until the pressure is so great, you no longer feel joyful. About anything.The world has become heavy. But you don't have to carry the world anymore.

A worried mind has forgotten God

most general officers never had a headache but they did invariably suffer from constant indigestion, a result of their inability to expel the gases that accumulated in them in the course of a day spent agreeing with everything their superiors said.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Failure is such a feeling and psychological attack that causes fear and stress.

Most of us are running after money, sex, and power. To some or full extent, bearing the burden of the stress and making the own life terrible.

Stress is such a force, and tension is such a condition; these both severely destroy health and place physically under strain; such invisible powers affect like a silent killer of a happy life.

The effective, and sufficient remedy for stress and depression is pure love-therapy, not only traditional and natural medication.

Nobody is upsetting you. Nothing is upsetting you. You get upset because you are upsettable.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

A teacher of meditation once told the story of a man who wanted nothing to do with the stress of life, so he retreated to a cave to meditate day and night for the rest of his life. But soon he came out again, driven to overwhelming distress by the sound of the dripping of water in his cave. The moral is that, at least to some extent, the stresses will always be there, for we bring our sensitivity with us. What we need is a new way of living with the stressors.

We cannot "play" until all the details of our work are done. The details are like little needles of arousal poking us. But that can make it difficult to relax and have some fun.

Overaroused HSPs tend to substitute "freeze" for the "fight or flight" response.

Because you're more sensitive, you don't need extra discomfort or stress around you. A situation may have been deemed safe but still be stressful for you. Likewise, others may have no problem with fluorescent lights, low levels of machine noise, or chemical odors, but you do. This is a very individual matter, even among HSPs.