Quotes About Stress

I'm sick of all the pressure. I'm sick of feeling like I'll ruin all their happiness if I don't do what they want me to do.

As I raced out of the office, I could hear Emily rapid-fire dialing four-digit extensions and all but screaming, 'She's on her way-- tell everyone.' It took me only three seconds to wind through the hallways and pass through the fashion department, but I had already heard panicked cries of 'Emily said she's on her way in' and 'Miranda's coming!' and a particularly blood curdling cry of 'She's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

This was exhausting. If she was going to make this kind of emotional investment in someone, he should at least be a proper boyfriend. But for a casual fling? She could drive herself crazy.

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little.

Only 10 to 20 percent of untrained people can stay calm and think in the midst of a survival emergency.

Affect dysregulation

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Everything Mrs. Richardson had put out of her mind from the hospital stay—everything she thought she'd forgotten—her body remembered on a cellular level: the rush of anxiety, the fear that permeated her thoughts of Izzy. The microscopic focus on each thing Izzy did, turning it this way and that, scrutinizing it for signs of weakness or disaster.

Once a week she would have to strain her nerves in going over about one dozen letters and a few dozen papers, mostly Fireside Companions from Portland, Maine. The mail sack would be dumped out on the floor and sorted over there.

Whenever she was particularly discomposed, she always performed one of these pedestrian feats; and the amount of her discomposure might always be estimated by the duration of her walk.

Your greatest danger is letting the urgent things crowd out the important.

The circumstances of everyday life were too demanding-and in American's great cities, appalling.

Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?" LUKE 12:25 NLT

Prayer and Anxiety SCRIPTURE READING: PSALM 69:1–3 KEY VERSE: 1 PETER 5:7

Everyone is having a harder time than it appears.

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code.

Five snoozes into your Monday alarm clock and you wonder if the $36 in your account will last the rest of your life if you quit.

Money is a headache, and money is the cure.

Nurses can take the pressure.

Today the accent is on youth but the stress is on the parents.