Quotes About Strain

No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.

I'll have an aneurysm with that much togetherness.

A dead host cannot easily spread the germ to others, so causing milder illness is "better" for the pathogen from a Darwinian point of view. People who are very sick stay home in bed or die, and those who are only mildly sick continue with their lives, preferentially spreading milder strains of the pathogen.

Reduce the effort whenever possible. The use of force is the opposite of awareness; learning does not take place when we are straining. The principle should not be no pain, no gain. Rather, it should be if strain, no gain. Feldenkrais thought the use of willpower (of which he obviously had plenty) was not helpful in developing awareness.

Jerry's fortune cookie said: "Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

No enthusiasm will ever stand the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His worker, only one thing will, and that is a personal relationship to Himself which has gone through the mill of His spring-cleaning until there is only one purpose left--I am here for God to send me where He will.

No amount of enthusiasm will ever stand up to the strain that Jesus Christ will put upon His servant. Only one thing will bear the strain, and that is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ Himself—a relationship that has been examined, purified, and tested until only one purpose remains and I can truly say, "I am here for God to send me where He will." Everything else may become blurred, but this relationship with Jesus Christ must never be.

It is a great strain to have to reassure people that one is perfectly well when all one really wishes is to be left alone to sleep.

Teachers are discouraged because it is impossible for them to meet the demands being placed on them. They are asked to spend their days in the exhausting position of having to control and dominate children. They must herd, push, and pull them as one body through a set curriculum. Only those who have had to attempt this inhuman and unnatural endeavor could possibly appreciate the strain it places on the teacher who singlehandedly must accomplish it.