Stress Quotes

“When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”
Richard Carlson
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”
Natalie Goldberg
“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.”
Natalie Goldberg
“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
Margaret Fuller
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
Lily Tomlin
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
“Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.”
Joshua L. Liebman
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
Will Rogers, Autobiography, 1949
“Stress is poison.”
Agavé Powers
“Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.”
Hartman Jule
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
Chinese Proverb
“Stress: The confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it.”
Unknown
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca
“We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don’t feel that anymore.”
Oprah Winfrey