Quotes About Stress

Does anybody wonder so many women die? Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

Money may not buy love, but fighting about it will bankrupt your relationship.

Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.

This was something I'd never been trained for. There were no military strategies or drills to prepare me for the daily torment of not killing someone.

You can live through most anything as long as you have the right tranquilizers on hand.

He was the author of a best-selling book emphasizing homeopathic remedies, stress reduction, and physical therapy as a means to reduce physical pain, advocating prescription drugs and surgical intervention only as last resorts.

Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass.

Trying to force a system to work beyond its capacity invariably causes turbulence and slows things down.

WITHOUT LAUGHTER, WHAT MAN of sense could endure either politics or war?

These children, the spirited ones, when surprised or faced with a potential threat startle more easily, their pulse races, blood pressure rises, stress hormones flood into their systems, and on an EEG, their brain even shows more activity on the right side.

I can't say no, I can't slow down, I have to keep going or they'll find out I'm a little kid in grownup's clothes, and a fraud.

Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving.

Clearly, being anxious is a full-time and rather exhausting occupation.

The vibrations created by irritation are equivalent to those of mercury, by anger to those of lead, and by sadness and sorrow to those of aluminum. In the same way, uncertainty is related to cadmium, despair to steel, and stress to zinc.

El problema es que mi cabeza no está nunca despejada. Mi cerebro es una casa de campo para demonios. Vienen a menudo y cada vez son más numerosos. Se preparan aperitivos con el licor de mis angustias. Se sirven de mi estrés porque saben que lo necesito para avanzar. Todo depende de la dosis. Demasiado estrés y mi cuerpo explota. Demasiado poco, y me paralizo. Pero el demonio más violento soy yo mismo.

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Endurance sports are largely about discomfort and stress; hence they are largely about coping.

In a race, the job of the muscles is to perform. The job of the mind is to cope.

To become the best athlete you can be, you need to become really good at coping with the characteristic forms of discomfort and stress that the endurance sports experience dishes out, beginning with perceived effort and extending to the many challenges that are secondary to it, such as fear of failure.

Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

We often find ourselves wishing for more hours in the day, but that wouldn't help anything. The problem, clearly, isn't that we have a shortage of time. It's more that we have an overload of everything else.

One frustration with anxiety is that it is often hard to find a reason behind it. There may be no visible threat and yet you can feel utterly terrorized.

There is no shame in not watching news. There is no shame in not going on Twitter. There is no shame in disconnecting.