Quotes About Stress

He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

Life is truly stressful but anything is possible.

I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

I'm a nervous flyer, and it doesn't make it any easier when I get to the airport and see the sign TERMINAL.

As I see it now, the perpetual stress I had been under since the age of twelve had rendered me woefully inept at accepting the goodwill of others. Those who go through healthy childhoods learn that exhibiting a suitable degree of dependence is how one gains others' love.

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

She couldn't concentrate enough to lose herself in a book—her lifelong method of escape.

I'm amazed this guy manages to get out of bed in the morning without working himself into a panic attack over the chance that he might trip on the bath mat and stab himself through the eye socket with his toothbrush and be left with a permanent twitch that'll ruin his chances of landing an airplane safely if the pilot has a heart attack and doom hundreds to a fiery death.

The economic boom has given us too many people with helicopters and too many crushed into cockroachy flats from hell, way too many loathing their lives in fluorescent cubicles, enduring for the weekend and then starting all over again, and we're fracturing under the weight of it.

The department shrink spent weeks trying to convince me I was deeply traumatized, but eventually he had to give up, admit I was fine (sort of regretfully; he doesn't get a lot of stabbed cops to play with, I think he was hoping I would have some kind of fancy complex) and let me go back to work.

You can't take credit for what you do when your back is against the wall. That's nothing more than instinct, falling back on what you know best.

The thought of a mortgage round my neck makes me edgy.

It feels like someone's using a tennis ball machine to fire starving pug dogs at you.

[W]hen you're dealing with stress, the problem may not be the stressful situation, as much as the effort to avoid that situation and the feelings it arouses.

All couples have disagreements and argue. And, when couples are stressed, they are likely to have more arguments. What distinguishes the marriages that last from those that don't is not how often they argue, but how they argue and how they treat each other on a daily basis.

Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.

If you're making a bunch of little decisions - like, do I read this email now or later? Do I file it? Do I forward it? Do I have to get more information? Do I put it in the spam folder? - that's a handful of decisions right there, and you haven't done anything meaningful. It puts us into a brain state of decision fatigue.

I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

When my blood pressure goes up, my Spanish stuff kicks in.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.