Numerous stress quotes to motivate, inspire and share

Many of us have been unconsciously programmed to treat walking as a means to an end, especially while in the workplace. Naturally, a lack of mindfulness while walking leaves one hostage to self-perpetuating stress and anxiety. We rush (often while shouting into a mobile phone), completely missing the enjoyment of walking. Walking and breathing, if practised harmoniously, can be peaceful and thoroughly enjoyable. Even walking down a corridor or into an office or wherever we are working or being of service can be a harmonious action.
Christopher Dines

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Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness
Divorce Goddess

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Maybe (Taoist story)A classic ancient story illustrates the importance of equanimity and emotional resilience beautifully. Once upon a time, there was a wise old farmer who had worked on the land for over 40 years. One morning, while walking to his stable, he noticed that his horse had run away. His neighbours came to visit and sympathetically said to the farmer, Such bad luck.Maybe, the farmer replied. The following morning, however, the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. Such good luck, the neighbours exclaimed.Maybe, the farmer replied. The following afternoon, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses and was thrown off, causing him to break his leg. The neighbours came to visit and tried to show sympathy and said to the farmer, how unfortunate. Maybe, answered the farmer. The following morning military officials came to the farmer’s village to draft young men into the army to fight in a new war. Observing that the farmer’s son’s leg was broken, they did not draft him into the war. The neighbours congratulated him on his good luck and the farmer calmly replied, Maybe.
Christopher Dines

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Stress is always a stranger to any mind that's in love with the spirit of gratitude.
Anonymous

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Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
Brian Herbert

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I am no one's to be claimed,I belong to me.
Anjum Choudhary

Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself 'so what?' Then, after answering, ask yourself again 'so what?' And then a third time—'so what?' Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.& Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
Richelle E. Goodrich

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The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.
Alexander Lowen

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The stress of it all. How the hell are we expected at the age of sixteen (and seventeen, in your case) to decide what we want to do for the rest of our lives? Right now all I want to do is get out of school, not start planning to get into another one. You're lucky you've always known what you want to do.
Cecelia Ahern

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In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That and the concept of Me time.?
Mindy Kaling

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,,, let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about me.
David Michie

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Edwyn can almost feel his testicles crawling up his ass.
Cornelius Moore

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i DO NOT WHY BUT i KEEP THINKING OF YOU, WHAT DID YOU EVER DO TO ME?I have tried na nikashindwa kukudelete from my system, IMEKATAA.i KNOW YOU HAVE TRIED TOO, IT LEAVES ME WONDERING WHAT IS THESE.It can only be explained by the gods.
Hanimoz Obey

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The effects of overworking;You forget which day it is.You think fast than what you write.
Lailah Gifty Akita

Overworking leads to exhaustion.
Lailah Gifty Akita

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Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.
Benny Bellamacina

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Learning to practise mindfulness greatly enhances our ability to manifest emotional intelligence and equanimity under pressure and to display calmness, empathy and adaptability when communicating with others, whether it be with co-workers, clients or the board of directors. Learning to apply mindfulness on a daily basis will significantly encourage a positive, creative and enthusiastic attitude at all levels in companies large and small.
Christopher Dines

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In my experience, most people are actually seeking recovery from the monotony and anxiety of qualitative repetition. This applies to body, emotions and mind. And that monotony and anxiety involves inertia just as much as over-use, meaning inertia in some areas and over-use in others.
Darrell Calkins

Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye

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If the world leaders can afford a 7 hours sleep, most of us probably can too.
Pawan Mishra

The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.
Roy F. Baumeister

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Try not to attract stress in your life through procrastination; the future already has its challenging demands.
Anonymous

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I believe that for every illness or ailment known to man, that God has a plant out here that will heal it. We just need to keep discovering the properties for natural healing.
Vannoy Gentles Fite

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After a stressful event, we often crave comfort food. Our body is calling for more glucose and simple carbohydrates and fat... And in modern life, people tend to have fewer friends and less support, because there's no tribe. Being alone is not good for the brain.
John J. Ratey

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We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.
Venugopal Gupta

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He tensed up at the thought of going back to work. Avoid stressful thoughts, he reminded himself. There was no need to rush his vacation thinking about such foul things as coming back home or going back to work. The vacation had only just begun and it was going to be a good one.
Jason Medina

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It’s easy to put the links between the increases in mental illness, depression, ADHD and the like, with the speed of the modern world. People never get the chance to do nothing, or when they do, they lack the control to prevent their mind from racing off in a thousand different directions. So much so that their doing nothing becomes a thousand different things and the thousand different things becomes stress, anxiety, worry and fear. Left untreated these simple everyday things become well entrenched in our psyches and start to dominate our lives. We have a chronic addiction with doing and we love to use our busyness as a stamp of our hard work and hectic lives and we get stuck in this busy trap of always doing.
Evan Sutter

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To truly accept a thing one must have no inner tension about it.
Will Advise

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Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness and order. The perfect darkness of death.How would that be? Just how would that be?
Stephen King

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Our current bittersweet relationship with our sleep hasn’t had a long history.
Pawan Mishra

Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
Dan Millman

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Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.
Amit Ray

The size of your sighs tell how deeply you’re in love. How I feel is very much like a stressed and distressed midget trying to breathe.
Jarod Kintz

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Things weren’t always as good as they are now. In school we learned that in the old days, the dark days, people didn’t realize how deadly a disease love was.For a long time they even viewed it as a good thing, something to be celebrated and pursued. Of course that’s one of the reasons it’s so dangerous: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. (That’s symptom number twelve, listed in the amor deliria nervosa section of the twelfth edition of The Safety, Health and Happiness Handbook, or The Book of Shhh, as we call it.) Instead people back then named other diseases—stress, heart disease, anxiety, depression, hypertension, insomnia, bipolar disorder—never realizing that these were, in fact, only symptoms that in the majority of cases could be traced back to the effects of amor deliria nervosa.
Lauren Oliver

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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
David Mamet

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It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.
Allen Elkin

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Always tying to please others is definitely an assured path to stress and failures in life.
Anonymous

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Before the state of stress or depression comes some frequent negative interpretations of one's experiences.
Anonymous

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Go inside you, feel the silence, use the eternal now that rules the past and the future.
Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray

In the midst of your struggles, you WILL find a reason to keep going. Don’t give up!
Robert Tew

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A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
Kilroy J. Oldster

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If weakness pervades the body, then it's mind we must strengthen
Nina Leavins

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If you focus your mind on problem, the problem would become bigger and bigger and you get into the circle of worrying and then your mind gives you the false impression that the problem is very big and mind than start multiplying your worries without any actual basis and you see no way of coming out of it. To come out of the problems you need to focus on solutions. -Subodh Gupta author, Stress Management a Holistic Approach -5 steps Plan.
Subodh Gupta

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The best way to reduce stress is to know that it is not real; it is just a false perception. Replace it with a perception of love and joy.
Debasish Mridha

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It would seem that the affects, biological needs and forms of behavior most repressed in a given culture are the ones most likely to give rise to symptoms . [...]in our culture it is considered much more acceptable to have an organic illness than an emotional or mental disorder; this would influence the fact that anxiety and other emotional stresses in our culture so often take a somatic form. In short, the culture conditions the way a person tries to resolve his anxiety and specifically what symptoms he may employ.
Rollo May

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I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.
Jen Kirkman

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