Quotes About Stress

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

I really didn't want to stay in Los Angeles. I was working constantly and feeling so guilty that I wasn't at home.

When I'm fidgety, and I just feel like everything is closing in, I go to the gym. You're building endorphins and feeling good about yourself. It's saved me.

I still have this habit, I guess, continued from college, where I procrastinate up until the last moment.

You know, I have been thinking about this a lot, and of course I had great stress during all this election campaign. And a lot of times, I was ready to step away because I wasn't sure that I had enough strength to continue.

Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

I always feel like the hammer's going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.

I'm now much less of an asset to the company than I could be. I keep my head down and for self-preservation just do my work with little conversation with anyone. Yet the irony is this: in my self-preservation, I'm actually destroying myself. In bottling up my unexpressed feelings, I'm making myself sick emotionally and physically.

When a workplace becomes toxic, its poison spreads beyond its walls and into the lives of its workers and their families.

Misinformation, rumors, and gossip are making this time stressful for everyone.

Worry weighs a person down; an encouraging word cheers a person up. —Proverbs 12:25

She said I was crazy. She said I did not understand the stress of being a twenty-four-hour nurse. She said I should be more understanding and help her more. I really tried, but it didn't seem to make any difference. After that, we just grew further apart. After a while, there was no love left, just deadness. Both of us agreed that the marriage was over.

what oral historian Studs Terkel called "a Monday through Friday kind of dying.

It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.

I brought in a fragrance consultant to evaluate the most appropriate atmospheric scents for the kind of work we do here. She recommended a gentle blend of sandalwood and lavender, and it has done wonders for staff stress levels, not to mention fewer sick days. Many organizations are doing it now.

I crammed a handful of Ativan into his mouth and flooded that orifice with forty ounces of Coca-Cola from the cup holder. 'This is going to take effect immediately,' I lied. 'Breathe, Mr. Sakha, breathe. Would you like me to sing a calming Western song? My name is Luka', I sang. 'I live on the second floor.

I'm a genius! Geniuses don't NEED medication!

A disharmonious mind is disturbing in itself, but sooner or later it also causes physical problems.

She] looked as if her nerves were quivering with the expectation that something would be thrown at her. But she never had anything worse than words to dread.

Worry is common, it's not good for us, it accomplishes little, and it dishonors the God who cares for us. Worry may be our most enduring form of unbelief.

The seven manifestations of broken bonding are psychosomatic illness, violence and aggression, addiction, depression, burnout, stress reaction, and organizational conflict.

The fact is that when we are filled with anxiety and fear, this affects both mental and physical functioning and reduces our capacity to reach our highest level of performance.

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.