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Quotes About Stress

It was not so much the [lack of] leisure, but also the nervous tension. One comes back to one's native land and sees that one has been abandoned. - Antheil
~ Richard Rhodes
My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of teror, tension, and anxiety. I wondered how long I could bear it.
~ Richard Wright
On a bad day, he could only remember Justin Bieber songs, which didn't do anything except give me a headache.
~ Rick Riordan
Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base decisions, allocate your time, and use your resources. You will tend to make choices based on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at that moment. People who don't know their purpose try to do too much — and that causes stress, fatigue, and conflict.
~ Rick Warren
it's hard to be spiritually strong and mentally alert when you are emotionally stressed or physically fatigued.
~ Rick Warren
The first way to balance stress in my life is to get an internal balance of who I am. And I know who I am by knowing whose I am. I am a child of God. I was put on earth not by accident, but for a purpose. I am deeply loved by God. I am accepted by him. He has a plan for my life, and because he put me here, I am significant.
~ Rick Warren
The novelty of hospital visiting was being slowly replaced by the fatigue of hospital visiting.
~ Kate Atkinson
I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul.
~ Kate Chopin
This is still less stressful than working in publishing.
~ Kate Elliott
The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.
~ Katharine Graham
Smoking helped me think and calmed my nerves, which I had in excess.
~ Kathleen Rooney
The merrier the heart, alleged Burton, the longer the life. Modern science tends to support his contention: positive emotions such as joy act as breathers from stress and in doing so they help to restore physical and psychological health after draining or stressful times.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
My eye starting to twitch and when my eye start to twitch, I get to shootin'.
~ Keisha Ervin
How'd you communicate? Paper and pen. Amazing inventions. Anyway, once we were in Buffalo, I led him here. We couldn't figure out a way in and he got stressed and apparently that -- she waved at him--- is what happens when a werewolf gets stressed. By then, the garage door was open, some staff guy bringing in a car. He took one look at Derek and decided it was time for a new job
~ Kelley Armstrong
I spend the day running on a treadmill while madly juggling a half dozen grenades. It's a solid day of absolutely zero progress, and the best I can say, at the end of it, is that nothing exploded.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I could mentally lift the vision wholesale and stick it into the already overflowing "crazy shit I'll deal with later" box in my brain.
~ Kelley Armstrong
But what had really happened tonight? With the cougar, it was obviously adrenaline with a chaser of shock, and maybe a little post-traumatic stress thrown in for good measure.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We had to get him to a doctor and, until then, I could only presume it was heart failure and perform CPR if he stopped breathing. I unbuttoned the mayor's shirt. When Nicole inched forward, the pilot snapped at her, and Corey told him to go to hell, which really didn't help matters.
~ Kelley Armstrong
There's only so much a woman can endure in a single day without a bracing bout of giggles.
~ Kelly Eileen Hake
No wonder there are so many working mothers—even a bad boss gives you more slack than your own child.
~ Kelly McClymer
Wynstan fumed throughout the long journey back to Shiring. He abused Degbert, yelled at tavern keepers, slapped maids, and whipped his horse mercilessly. The fact that he kept forgetting the simplest things made him
~ Ken Follett
luces intermitentes. Se sintió aliviado al llegar al puente Carquinez. Una
~ Ken Follett
The world news might not be therapeutic.
~ Ken Kesey
Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up . . .
~ Ken Kesey