Quotes About Stress

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

Worry is a form of fear.

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear.

Worry is a state of mind based on fear.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.

Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Worry is the cross which we make for ourselves by overanxiety.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

A request not to worry ... is perhaps the least soothing message capable of human utterance.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day's work is done. Your imagination can run riot then ... your mind is like a motor operating without its load.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

Strah mijenja oblik i briga ime.

Mindfulness meditation encourages us to become more patient and compassionate with ourselves and to cultivate open-mindedness and gentle persistence. These qualities help free us from the gravitational pull of anxiety, stress and unhappiness by reminding us what science has shown: that it's OK to stop treating sadness and other difficulties as problems that need to be solved.

So instead of sucking back some liquid sanity, he smoked the hand rolled down. Then he flicked the stub into the cold fireplace, closed his eyes and cursed three times…

For a brief moment, he remembered when he had been the most cool-headed in the Brotherhood, the icy intellectual, the laser-sighted truth layer. Lately, the stressors had been coming on him so hard and fast. He had turned into a flaming hot Cheetos!