Quotes About Stress

In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wireman says.

In the end, we wear out our worries.

even the most well-adjusted person is holding on to his or her sanity by a greased rope.

I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you can save that horseshit for the Sylvia Plath worshipers. It's just that creative people have creative breakdowns.

Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

We cam leave the rat race to rodents... but I suspect that even they wouldn't like it.

It is only when one is under extreme duress that one's true character is revealed.

With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.

My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

to know time is to fear it, and to know civilized time is to be terrorstricken.

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

Her life these days held a constant underlying drumbeat of worry.

was easy to lose perspective when you'd had no sleep and had been stuck for forty-eight hours with a gastro-intestinally challenged man and a bathroom with deeply inadequate soundproofing.

Work had reached a misery point where I had to make myself sing show tunes in my car even to make myself drive to the airport.

I hadn't slept properly for days and felt half dead, as if the fury and adrenalin that had sustained me had all leached away.

I walked back across the road straight past him, fumbling in my bag for my keys. Why did fingers always turn into cocktail sausages at moments of stress?

My stomach turned somersaults.

Fancy a friendly beer with an exhausted corporate wage slave?

I stared at the folder in front of me. It felt like I was about to sit an exam I hadn't prepared for.

Research shows that when we count three blessings a day, we get a measurable boost in happiness that uplifts and energizes us. It's also physiologically impossible to be stressed and thankful at the same time.

Ninety percent of doctor visits are stress related, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the #1 cause of office stress is coworkers and their complaining, according to Truejobs.com.

Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings.

The confusion, frustration, stress, and fears that come with financial dilemmas can make even the most ethical of individuals vulnerable to bad choices.