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Quotes About Stress

The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it
~ Carl Sagan
The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
~ Harland Miller
The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.
~ Daniel Levitin
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
~ Alvin Toffler
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.
~ William George Jordan
Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.
~ Unknown
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.
~ Nicholas Hoult
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
~ Earl Wilson
Now is the age of anxiety.
~ Unknown
I'm trying to read a book on how to relax, but I keep falling asleep.
~ Unknown
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
~ Edward Abbey
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
~ Lily Tomlin
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done...
~ Anonymous
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
~ Unknown
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
~ Robert Frost
I think the worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades...or a game of fake heart attack.
~ Demetri Martin
I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.
~ Paul Lynde
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
~ John Gray
No matter how stressed I may get, I cannot forget how blessed I am. I have so many people that love and support me and I wouldn't change that for anything.
~ Unknown
Trust your instinct, care less and you won't be so stressed. Birth and death are solitary. Spend the time in between with the ones you love. Live, Love and be happy.
~ Unknown
After all the pain, I smoke to decrease the stress on my brain, never ashamed, because I'm true to me, looking into my eyes, I hoped you'd realize my heart was yours, but we had problems of our own, struggles, both of us came from broken homes, we may have made mistakes, but my love for you still remains, precious memories we shared I won't forget, even tho it ended, I wouldn't change anything, I'm just glad we met.
~ Unknown