Quotes About Stress

Engel's biopsychosocial model proposed that psychological and social factors could either protect a person from illness or increase his or her susceptibility to it. Such factors include a person's beliefs and attitudes, how supported and loved a person feels by family and friends, the psychological and environmental stresses to which one is exposed, and personal health behaviors.

There are no drugs that will make you immune to stress or to pain or that will by themselves magically solve your life's problems or promote healing. It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.

Even something as simple as relaxation can be frustratingly elusive if you are unaware of your body. The stress of daily living often produces tension that tends to localize in particular muscle groups, such as the shoulders, the jaw, and the forehead.

Mindfulness is now more relevant than ever as an effective and dependable counterbalance to strengthen our health and well-being, and perhaps our very sanity.

As a consequence of this common play of our minds, don't we all tend to fill up our days with things that just have to be done and then run around desperately trying to do them all, while in the process not really enjoying much of the doing because we are too pressed for time, too rushed, too busy, too anxious?

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.

My family gets incredibly tense and stressed out around traveling. There's something really beautiful in that vulnerability.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

I know having a job can sometimes be very challenging, but not having one can be too.

I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

Worry is the child of Fear -- if you kill out Fear, Worry will die for want of nourishment.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

Worry is a sustained form of fear caused by indecision

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

Every single night I'm nervous.