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: 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

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
Sylvia Plath

In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
Jim Goodwin & Sydney J. Harris

Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet

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

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.

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

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.

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

In times of stress, be bold and valiant.

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

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

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

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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.

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

I�ve tried yoga, but I find stress less boring.

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 like an iceberg. We can see one-eighth of it above, but what about what�s below?

The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.
Donna Rice

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman

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

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

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer
and other diseases.
John Simon

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

There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.
Cofer Black

There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.
Peter Drucker

And I always like to stress, it’s not a quota, not a set-aside, it’s not about race, it’s about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.
Alphonso Jackson

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

And the program was developed in large part by behavioral scientists who were working with the military, who do everything they possibly can to measure a soldier’s stress levels to see how they’re doing physically and emotionally, as they go through this program.
Jane Mayer

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

Basically, my problem was attributed to stress more than anything. I don’t know what that does and I guess doctors can tell you that there’s chemicals that build up in your system when you go through a lot of stress and constant stress.
Mike Ditka

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.
A.A. Milne

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is – and that is the point I want to stress – that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
Karel Capek

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

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.
Marilu Henner

Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
Carrie Latet

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out.
Rider Strong

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

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.
Alexis Bledel

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

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.
Britney Spears

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.
Danzae Pace

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye

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

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

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

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don’t see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.
Dave Winfield

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
H.L. Mencken

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

The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.

God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.
Kelly Clarkson

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

I also think stress is related to control. When you’re in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don’t really matter like traffic jams.
Marilu Henner

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

I am thrilled – I can’t stress that enough – thrilled when I see kids getting active.
Harvey Fierstein

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
John De Paola

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

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan

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

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

To be “on edge,” you are literally not centered – not being in your spiritual center.
Carrie Latet

Stress is poison.
Agave Powers

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

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

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

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers.
H.M. Tomlinson

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

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

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert Maclver

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese Proverb

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

Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world.
Carrie Latet

When I look at my hands and in my heart, I see stress as Lady Macbeth saw blood.
Berri Clove