Quotes About Stress

The emotional weight of clutter crushes our souls and our lives.

Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!

If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's spouse.

Stretching oneself too thin is the disease of modern life — letting oneself get too thick, the other.

Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.

It is difficult to be good-natured in a hot day. Intense heat destroys even the temper of steel, and why not that of flesh and blood?

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

I lay back with a sigh, up to my chin in bubbles, the blood throbbing in my head. It felt so good to stretch out. My arms and back were aching after lumping Pixie around all that time.

Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease;

Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The

DON'T LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE. Everything you do takes up space in your brain. If you live a double life (and you know what I mean if I'm talking to you), then that extra life takes up neurons and synapses working overtime. The brain can't handle it. It starts to degrade instead of grow.

perfectionism is sometimes the most dangerous set of thoughts you can let make their home in your head.

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.

But action leaks the panic out of your head.

If I had a to-do list I might get even more stressed not getting to it. The to-do list becomes my master and I become the slave. One of my themes is "less slavery in my life.

There were plenty of other times when I was working too hard, dealing with people I didn't like, getting my creativity crushed over and over, and so on. When you are in those situations, you need to plot out your exit strategy.

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

There's three things that are never good for a consumer mindset: uncertainty certainly, concern, and discordance.

Enjoy the pressure. Enjoy the stress. Enjoy being uncomfortable. And don't shy away from it, embrace it.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

When I was growing up, I always saw brides around me under tremendous stress. The pressure to dress a certain way, wear a certain amount of jewelry and make-up... I saw how uncomfortable it was. So I decided that, if I do get married, I'll be someone who puts comfort first, and then looks at her options for cut, color, embroidery or jewelry.

I get naturally uncomfortable when I'm put under a magnifying glass.