Quotes About Stress

Le travail peut nuire gravement à votre santé. En fait, le travail est un meurtre de masse, un génocide. Directement ou indirectement, le travail va tuer la plupart des lecteurs de ces lignes.

Whoever said being anxious gets more accomplished?

I heard experts claim again and again that owning pets reduces stress and might extend your life. I tried to remember that as I dragged a hose out of the basement to fill the ducks' plastic swimming pool in January weather so cold, the snow complained as I stepped on it.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves

We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.

The stress that kills or cripples most of the population comes from people being too hard on themselves when they don't live up to their own imaginings about how other people think they should behave.

When you are in the thick of things, you can get confused by small stuff,

Learn to cope with anger by avoiding stressful situations, to the extent that you can.

Loneliness, anger, frustration, stress, peer-pressure, passions, the desire to please both man and God are all factors in your behavior, and the more you know about what makes you tick, the more you will be in control of your life.

But too much stress causes the suspension bridge to collapse, the string of the violin to snap, and the drum head to burst. And stress can kill you.

Mental ailments are destroying blacks, as well: Black women suffer the highest rates of stress and major depression in the nation and suicide rates soared 200 percent among young black men within just twenty years.

At the same time, my anxiety had turned into an anxiety quite lacking in anxiousness. And any anxiety that is not especially anxious is, in the end, an anxiety hardly worth mentioning.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it's like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It's hard to go back to the original shape.

At times like this, adults need a drink

You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will ligthen up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and its' the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

ADT isn't an illness or character defect. It's our brains' natural response to exploding demands on our time and attention. As data increasingly floods our brains, we lose our ability to solve problems and handle the unknown. Creativity shrivels; mistakes multiply. Some sufferers eventually melt down.

There is good evidence that when people are put under pressure, they regress to their most habituated ways of responding

You're scared because you expect a lot from yourself and you're afraid you'll underperform.

first don't panic, second don't panic and third DID I MENTCHIN NOT TO PANIC?!

Having a bunch of arghful or superdemanding life stuff, all while our biochemistry is flying up and down like a haunted elevator or radically changing to a kind of hormonal makeup we haven't had for more than a week at a time since we were kids—no shit that can have an impact on our mental health.

Work — once merely an annoying nuisance — has become an agonizing torture.

It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it.

It seems wrong and unfair that Christmas, with its stressful and unmanageable financial and emotional challenges, should first be forced upon one wholly against one's will, then rudely snatched away just when one is starting to get into it.