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STRESS

Stress is a medical condition that can have a serious effect on your health. The crises, dramas, problems and pressures that can cause stress may not go away. What you can change is your perception of how you feel about them, and how you'll deal with them. As you become more relaxed and less stressed, you may perceive problems and potential stressors differently so that they will no longer have the power to make you stressed.

Confucius was a famous Chinese philosopher who lived about 500 years before Christ. His teachings and philosophy have had a profound and lasting effect upon the Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese cultures.

He was apparently contemplating the stresses of daily life when he said: "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

Many other people have commented about stress. Please enjoy the following

STRESS QUOTATIONS

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think. – Bill Clinton quotes (American 42nd US President (1993-2001), b.1946).
For fast-acting relief try slowing down. – Lily Tomlin 1939-, American Comedian

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. – Lily Tomlin (American Actress and Comedian. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2003.b.1939)
Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. – Barbara Enberg

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. – Carlos Castaneda

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 quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author of self-help best selling books. b.1940)

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. – Amethyst Angel Dan Millman

The key to winning is poise under stress. – Paul Brown

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. – Norman Vincent Peale quotes (American Protestant Clergyman and Writer, 1898-1993)

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin. – Agnes Repplier quotes (American Essayist and Writer, She is known for her collections of scholarly essays in Compromises (1904). 1858-1950)

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

Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals that stress on the job causes stress at home. In other words, they feed off each other. – Zig Ziglar

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable. – Greg Anderson

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a four-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities. – Shirley Jackson

Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

All stress is ultimately related to loss or the fear of loss. – David Simon

Stress, in addition to being itself and the result of itself, is also the cause of itself. – Hans Selye

There's this perception that if you worry a lot and if you look really busy and stressed out then you'll be more successful. You talk about how little sleep you get and how tensed you are and how you're not getting the appreciation you deserve. – Nancy Mayer

Here’s a two step formula for handling stress. Step number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Step number two: Remember it’s all small stuff. – Anthony Robbins

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

All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure. – Roger Staubach
Hint: Grandma never wore a beeper. – Allen Elkin

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. – Joseph Campbell

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear - the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. – A.L. Williams American Football Coach, Businessman, Author, Speaker

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint. – Alexander Hamilton 1757-1804, American Statesman

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. – Andrew Denton

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods. Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative STRESS into a positive one. – Hans Selye 1907-1982, Canadian Physician Born In Austria, Research On Stress

The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of god health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body. – Harry J. Johnson, American Medical Doctor

Your body is an amazing creation, capable of performing great wonders, but you can destroy that miraculous machine's potential with an overdose of STRESS. – Harry J. Johnson, American Medical Doctor

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, American Relationship Expert, Author

Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. – Mark Allen, American Track Athlete

The truth is that most busy people cannot sustain a seven-day-a-week training schedule. There are too many other stresses and responsibilities in their lives. –– PattiSue Plumber, American Runner

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. – Richard Saunders

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban 1925 - , American Author

I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. – Salman Rushdie 1948-, Indian-born British Author

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie 1948-, Indian-born British Author

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil 1910-1943, French Philosopher, Mystic

To be free of destructive stress don't sweat the small stuff and by realizing that all stuff is small. – Source Unknown

In times of stress and strain, people will vote. – Source Unknown

You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you. – Vicki Baum 1888-1960, American Writer

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 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

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

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

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

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

Stress is the heart's jailer. – Kall

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.– Ben Franklin

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. – Ashleigh Brilliant.

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

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. – Richard Saunders

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? – Russell Hoban

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure. – Richard Carlson

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.– Wayne Dyer

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.– Suze Orman

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

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. – William James (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)