Quotes About Stress

Stress is a good thing, of course. Hunger, thirst are both stresses; if not for them, we would not survive. It is only the way we deal with stress that we need to examine.

I don't say no to dance shows on TV channels as they have always served as stress busters. I thoroughly enjoy dancing.

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

From getting good grades in school, to thinking about getting a good career and settling down, we all have been running a rat race. We always thought that we were doing it for ourselves but actually we were doing it for others. Like, I realized, I never had time for myself.

I began getting these terrible headaches and I thought 'Oh great, death.' But it was just tension and tiredness.

One morning, in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.

In a way, owing a hundred million is easier than a hundred thousand, because you stop imagining that you will ever be able to pay the money back.

Suppose you were working at your job one day, and you made a little mistake. Then all of a sudden a red light went on over your desk, and fifteen thousand people stood up and yelled at you that you sucked?

Everywhere else in the day, my brain is in a thousand different places, but when I'm working out, I can only focus on the pain.

Every day is different. I've only ever been happy spinning a thousand plates at once.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Pour alcohol on a bundle of nerves and it generally turns into a can of worms.

Because it can get in the way of rational thought, anxiety can have the same effect as irritability.

INFLEXIBILITY + INFLEXIBILITY = MELTDOWN

What stress really does, though, is deplete willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions.

I have learnt by actual stress of imminent danger, in the first place, that self-control is more indispensable than gunpowder, and, in the second place, that persistent self-control under the provocation of African travel is impossible without real, heartfelt sympathy for the natives with whom one has to deal.

Un golpe de suerte no es más que la raíz de la siguiente preocupación.

True positiveness is the effect on life that comes about simply through not being affected by it. This beautiful thing comes to pass by discovering a relationship with our Parent Self. If we let the Presence within affect us more than our environment, we remain calm—less and less affected by stress.

The most trying hours in life are between four o'clock and the evening meal. A cup of tea at this time adds a lot of comfort and happiness.

This mish mash of three brains, called the lizard-squirrel-monkey brain, all trying to function at once is one reason why we're nuts.

when we perceive danger, adrenaline shoots into us but because we can't kill a traffic warden or eat an estate agent, the juice never comes back down. We're in a constant state of red light alert, like a car siren that drives you nuts. Because