“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” -Attributed to Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris

“Give your stress wings and let it fly away.” -Terri Guillemets

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”  -Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne

“Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world” -Carrie Latet

“More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you – but at least it will make you skinny!” -Joely Fisher

“I try to avoid stress – it makes me feel like I’m rubber-stamping all my organs “Urgent.”  -Berri Clove

“How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.” -Spanish Proverb

“A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.” -John Gray

“Everybody’s going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it’s a stressful time in everybody’s lives.” -Chris Frantz

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” -Etty Hillesum

 

“I’ve chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.” -Martin Short

” 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

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” -Mohandas K. Gandhi

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” -Aesop, Fables

“Releasing the pressure, it’s good for the teapot and the water.  Try it sometime.” -Jeb Dickerson

“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” -Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that fire alarms could be given verbally, by a shouting watchman mounted on top of St. Stefan’s Cathedral.  In twentieth-century society, the noise level is such that it keeps knocking our bodies out of tune and out of their natural rhythms.  This ever-increasing assault of sound upon our ears, minds, and bodies adds to the stress load of civilized beings trying to live in a highly complex environment.” -Steven Halpern

“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.” -Alvin Toffler

“ Stress is the physical and psychological effects we experience as a result of the way we react to changes in the surrounding environment.” -Pavel Stoyanov

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.” -Natalie Goldberg

“Stress is like an iceberg. We can see one-eighth of it above, but what about what’s below.” -Author Unknown

“If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it. -George F. Burns

“Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.” -Jane Wagner

“In most cases, stress is the root cause of death; illnesses are just the wrap up.” -Yordan Yordanov

“Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.” -Jenny Craig

“To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring-it was peace.”-Milan Kundera

 

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”-Lily Tomlin

 

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”-Wayne Dyer

 

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”-Lao Tzu

 

“If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.”-Elizabeth Bowen

 

“Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.”-Hartman Jule

 

“Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?”-Carrie Latet

 

“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”-Douglas Pagels

 

“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”-Richard Carlson

 

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”-Anna Quindlen

 

“Change your thoughts and you change the world.”-Harold R. Mcalindon

 

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”-Bertha Calloway

 

“Worry is the misuse of the imagination.”-Dan Zadra

 

“Give your stress wings and let it fly away.”-Carin Hartness

 

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with all of the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”-Will Rogers

 

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”-Jennifer Yane

 

“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”-John D. Rockafeller, Jr.

 

“Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.”-Yanni

 

“A clear direction can help reduce your stress.”-Catherine Pulsifer

 

“It’s funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.”-William Somerset Maugham

 

“Often when a person can’t get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself. “- Marilu Henner

 

“Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it’s diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.”- Mary Ann Mobley

 

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. “- William James

 

“If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations you can positively change your outlook, reduce your stress, and concentrate on achieving things that otherwise may not have been possible.” -Catherine Pulsifer

 

“The man who doesn’t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.” -Elbert Hubbard

 

“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.”- Natalie Goldberg

 

“Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.”-Anonymous

 

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world-not even our troubles.”-Charlie Chaplin

 

“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”-Martha Washington 1732-1802

 

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”-Lord Byron 1788-1824

 

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”-Marcus Aurelius Antonius

 

“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”-Harry Emerson Fosdick

 

“If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched.” -Adabella Radici

 

“Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”- John D Paola

 

“Tomorrow never comes and yesterday never comes back, so live today to its fullest so that your yesterdays will be remembered with happiness and your tomorrows will be full of brightness and hope.” -Nick Smith

 

“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”- Chinese proverb

 

”While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die-whether it is our spirit, our creativity our our glorious uniqueness.”- Gilda Radner

 

“Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting, and move on.” -Norman Vincent Peale

 

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.” -Henry Ford, Automobile Manufacturer

 

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” -Plato

 

“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.” -Patricia Neal

 

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time. Not tomorrow or next year….. Today should always be our most wonderful day.” -Thomas Dreier, Author

 

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.” -Nikki Giovanni

 

“Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”-Charles Dickens

 

“It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles.” -James Sharp

 

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”-Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.”- Col. Harland Sanders

 

“The remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”- Charles Swindoll, author

 

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. “- Unknown

 

“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”-Alexander Graham Bell

“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”- Hugh Miller

 

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”- James Allen

 

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” -Tony Robbins

 

‘The reality of life is that your perceptions, right or wrong, influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.” -Roger Birkman

 

“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.“  ~Margaret Fuller

 

“If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.” -Doug Larson

 

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” -Ovid

 

“Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.” -Douglas Pagels

 

“Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.” -Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie

 

“Stress is the trash of modern life – we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.”  -Terri Guillemets

 

“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”  -Hans Selye

 

“Stress is poison.”  -Agavé Powers

 

“Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you’ll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid it.” -Steve Pavlina

 

“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” -Astrid Alauda

 

“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” -J. Lubbock

“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

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.” - Wayne Dyer

“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.” - Andrew Denton

“A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.” -William Henry Davies

 

“In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics… am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise every day.” -Edward Albert

 

“There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.” -Kenneth H. Cooper

“Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.”  -Christopher Morley

 

“Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.” - Maureen Killoran

“Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.” -Janet Street-Porter

“Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it’s time to start your day.” -Sharon Gold