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.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
I guess the main source of stress for me is the stress I put on myself.
I deal with stress in two ways because there are two kinds of stress. There's stress that you can take care of and there's stress that you can't. The first one, I take care of it as fast as possible, because putting it off always makes it worse. Things that I can't fix? I think about the fact that I can't fix them. I think about why I can't fix them and I come to terms with the fact that this is a problem that I'm not going to overcome and that the world is not a wish granting factory.
Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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.
Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
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.
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
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.
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.
Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.
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
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
You can't worry about things you have no control over.
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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