Quotes About Stress

That's right," he said, "I must remember that, not to get excited. Everybody is very thoughtful. They put you in uniform and teach you what every young man ought to know, and take you across the ocean into the middle of hell, bombs, bullets, shells, flame-throwers, your friends die right against you and bleed down your neck, and after two years of that they bring you home and turn you loose and tell you now remember don't get excited.

Wolfe has taught me that one of the most important requirements for successful lying is relaxed vocal cords and throat muscles; otherwise you are forced to put on extra pressure to push the lie through, and the result is that you talk faster and raise the pitch and the blood shows in your face.

Indeed,' I said. That was Nero Wolfe's word, and I never used it except in moments of stress, and it severely annoyed my when I caught myself using it, because when I look in a mirror I prefer to see me as is, with no skin grafted from anybody else's hide, even Nero Wolfe's.

Remove physiological stress from the body, and the body does what it was designed to do. It heals itself.

That's all we would do was just laugh, laugh, and laugh. We couldn't afford to put any stress in my life, because we knew stress was one of the worst things you can do while you're trying to heal yourself. 

Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. Negative thoughts and stress have been shown to seriously degrade the body and the functioning of the brain, because it's our thoughts and emotions that are continuously reassembling, reorganizing, re-creating our body.

All stress begins with one negative thought. One thought that went unchecked, and then more thoughts came and more, until stress manifested. The effect is stress, but the cause was negative thinking, and it all began with one little negative thought. No matter what you might have manifested, you can change it . . . with one small positive thought and then another.

You cannot bring what you want to you if you are feeling stress. Stress or any tension at all is something you have to remove from your system.

The emotion of stress is saying strongly that you do NOT have what you want. Stress or tension is the absence of faith, and so to remove it, all you have to do is increase your faith!

I'm sorry if I'm a poor specimen of a companion today. It has been a worrying week.

These unconscious skills can be skills that are detrimental to our well-being, including depressing ourselves, hesitating, stressing ourselves out, or feeling terrified and hopeless. Conversely, they can also be skills of motivating ourselves, becoming relaxed, or being more confident and hopeful.

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.

I would have loved to have spoken to these fishermen. Probably they were as stressed about their money and families as anyone else, but their life seemed so tranquil and rooted in such an ancient tradition that I felt they must have come to terms with time in a way I never had.

As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy, waking up stressed and miserable isn't a good way to live.

Surprisingly, muscle tension can even break a hip before the person has reached the ground. It's a frightening thought, but a good example of how stressed muscles can become.

Have you ever wondered why life seems so complicated today--more complicated and stressful year after year? One reason is the ever-evolving army of mind viruses, taking over a greater and greater portion of your mind, diverting you from your pursuit of happiness and due to have an even greater effect on the next generation.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

This chapter provides a comprehensive definition of life scripts as a complex set of unconscious relational patterns based on physiological survival reactions, implicit experiential conclusions, explicit decisions, and/or self-regulating introjections, made under stress, at any developmental age, that inhibit spontaneity and limit flexibility in problem-solving, health maintenance and in relationship with people.

All my worries had been for nothing. That's usually how it is with worrying. More often than not, we get ourselves all in a sweat over something that might happen, then everything turns out just fine.

God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? ("Disappearing Act")

Another day. Another collection of wracking hours.

Paying bills is hard, and dealing with a teen makes life even harder.

There was one case in which a man in Level 4 suddenly began screaming, "Get me out of here!"—and he tore off his space suit's helmet, taking great gasps of air from Level 4. (They dragged him into a chemical shower and kept him there for a while.)