Quotes About Stress

Keep a sense of humor. Over and over, I see that levity helps diffuse practically any difficult situation—which

These tasks weren't urgent (which was the reason they didn't get done), but because they weighed on my mind, they sapped my energy.

Procrastinators can't make themselves work—often, ironically, because they're so anxious about work that they have to distract themselves from it—but they can't enjoy free time, either, because they know they should be working. A regular work schedule can help procrastinators because progress and engagement relieve their anxiety.

People's biggest worries include financial anxiety, health concerns, job insecurity, and having to do tiring and boring chores.

Research suggests that people feel more in control and less anxious when engaged in habit behavior.

I feel too anxious to tackle my bad habits, but my bad habits are what make me anxious.

A regular work schedule can help procrastinators because progress and engagement relieve their anxiety.

Instead of being sources of stress, my home and my office are places of comfort and energy.

When we distract ourselves, we purposefully redirect our thoughts, and by doing so, we change our experience. Distraction can help us resist temptation, minimize stress, feel refreshed, and tolerate pain, and it can help us stick to our good habits.

Surprisingly, stress doesn't necessarily make us likely to indulge in bad habits; when we're anxious or tired, we fall back on our habits, whether bad or good.

For this reason, it's all the more important to try to shape habits mindfully, so that when we fall back on them at times of stress, we're following activities that make our situation better, not worse.

If you're working, it's the best therapy for posttraumatic stress," Juan says. Studies have shown that the gravity of posttraumatic stress is directly proportional to the length of time one lives with the threat of death, and Juan slowly unwinds the trauma of the sixty-nine days he lived inside a thundering mountain by going to work, fixing machines, then going back home, and then returning to work again.

it is only to stress the fact that the difference between a clandestine literature and no literature equals the difference between one and zero.

Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago—the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.

He looked maybe half an egg sandwich away from a coronary.

I don't do the wait-and-worry wife well." "Nice alliteration. The two D's and then all those W's.

Worry about what you can control. If you can't control it, let it go.

She knew what will come next with these mothers—picking the right preschool as though it were a life 'n' death decision, waiting in the pickup line, positioning their kids for the elite playdates, Little Gym classes, karate lessons, lacrosse practice, French immersion courses, constant carpools. The happy turns to harried, and the harried becomes routine.

Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

One of the biggest ways to level the playing field is to give all young people the same context on what opportunities are out there. And that means touching on some of the questions that are a little taboo in society: How much money do you make? What are your stresses? What would you do differently if you could?

Everybody has a breaking point. It's tough to ignore the impulse to respond with anger.

Parenting is tough.

Playing three games in seven or eight days is very tough.