Stress Quotations
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| A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. | |||
| - Aesop | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. | |||
| - Peter F. Drucker | |||
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| No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it. | |||
| - Harry Emerson Fosdick | |||
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| There is more to life than increasing its speed. | |||
| - Mahatma Gandhi | |||
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| Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. | |||
| - Natalie Goldberg | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. | |||
| - Jerome K. Jerome | |||
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| If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
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| The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse. | |||
| - Christopher Morley | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. | |||
| - Ovid | |||
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| 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'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 | |||
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| There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. | |||
| - Sylvia Plath | |||
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| Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. | |||
| - Spanish Proverb | |||
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| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
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| One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. | |||
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | |||
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| For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. | |||
| - Lily Tomlin | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. | |||
| - Bill Watterson | |||
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| I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once. | |||
| - Jennifer Yane | |||