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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
Sep 29, 2025
I try to take it one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet
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.
Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
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
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.
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.
I learned about stress management from my kids. Every night after work, I drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey.
Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of me.' As I said it, a totally inappropriate picture popped into my mind. 'What are you feeling?' Jake's breath warm against my face, my bruised lips tingling from his kisses. 'Tell me what it feels like with me inside you.'
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
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.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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