Quotes About Stress

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!

As a matter of recuperation the vacation does not recuperate, since as a rule, no man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to reform his life.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

If worrying were an Olympic sport, you'd get the gold for sure.

Try not to worry, as it's sticky and hard to scrub off.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.

Worry is just curdled energy!

Worry bankrupts the spirit.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives...

When overwhelmed and stressed and unable to think, I go out and garden, it's cheaper than a shrink.

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher's job.

When you are depressed, you have a chemical imbalance in your brain. Thoughts trigger emotions, which dump an overload of stress chemicals into the brain. There is a chemical consequence in the brain for every thought we think. Depression can be short-circuited temporarily by the brain-switching process. It's a way of restoring the chemical balance. The thoughts that create depression connect with one's memory banks, which have emotional associations. In

Disease is stress manifesting

Health is the art of balance. Good mental and physical health require balance. Balance of diet, exercise, sleep, and stress. Imbalance creates stress on the body and mind. Poor health and disease are states of imbalance. Relaxation restores balance. Relaxation is the ideal state for good health. Relaxation is the ideal state for healing. Meditation is the art of consciously relaxing body and mind.

Resistance increases stress, but acceptance decreases stress

I find the business world hard.

Even in the richer countries, what happens at work can make people fulfilled, bored, valued or stressed. At the deepest level work shapes who we are.

I'm stuck in traffic on the highway to hell.

understood what happened when men under extreme duress were given the latitude to express their dissatisfactions unchecked—how quickly a wrong, real or imagined, could magnify in men's minds, how a single misconstrued incident or comment could make its way through the ranks.

I've had thousands of problems in my life. Most of which never actually happened.