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Quotes About Stress

I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful life!
~ Tim McCarthy
Success will ruin your life.
~ Tom Clancy
People tracking your life and photographing you anywhere you go, that can make you crazy.
~ Tom Selleck
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about.
~ Tony Robbins
In real life, holidays are extremely stressful. They're the best of times and worst of times because you have got people trying to get along with people that you don't always get along with.
~ Will Packer
You have to fight really hard for a private life, and sometimes you don't have one. It just gets to you after a while. It's tough.
~ John Carpenter
Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life.
~ John Lancaster Spalding
To some degree we all find life difficult, perplexing, and oppressive. Even when it goes well, as it may for a time, we worry that it probably won't keep on that way.
~ Joko Beck
You can bring together the body's various systems to fine tune the body and mind in order to navigate life's ups and downs in a way that minimizes stress and maximizes well-being and satisfaction.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Life has become a state of sensory overload.
~ Joseph Curiale
I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.
~ Julie Walters
When did having a life become an event you had to schedule?
~ Karen Marie Moning
I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
~ Kate Voegele
Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.
~ Louis Kronenberger
Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
~ Marianne Williamson
It cannot be stressful. It just has to be fun. There are many, many things to stress for in this life -- not getting ready for a red carpet.
~ Marion Cotillard
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.
~ Mark Kozelek
People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way
~ Frederick Lenz
Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
~ Garrett Hedlund
These statistics suggest very strongly that the cause of most back pain is emotional, for the years between thirty and sixty are the ages that fall into what I would call the years of responsibility. This is the period in one's life when one is under the most strain to succeed, to provide and excel, and it is logical that this is when one would experience the highest incidence of TMS.
~ John E. Sarno
Once it is pointed out to them, these patients have little trouble recognizing that they are the kind of perfectionist, highly responsible people who generate a lot of subconscious anger and anxiety in response to the pressures of everyday life.
~ John E. Sarno
We take life seriously and responsibly. As our lives become more complex, we generate more and more tension. This is the basis for most back pain.
~ John E. Sarno
There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems." Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts
~ John E. Sarno