Funny Stress Quotes:

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

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Funny, Success, Women, Inspirational Stress, Stress Management

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

- Arthur Frederick Saunders

topic: Stress, Cells, Ideas, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Reduction

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.

- Fred Rogers

source: Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.94, Penguin

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Heart, Stress And Life, Stress Relief

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

- David Mamet

topic: Stress, Food, Pie, Stress And Life, Life Stress

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

- Henry A. Kissinger

source: The New York Times Magazine, June 01, 1969.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Witty, Stress Release, Stress Relief

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

- Winston Churchill

topic: Life, Depressing, Funny Inspirational, You Make Me Happy, Stress And Worry

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

- Sydney J. Harris

topic: Funny, Witty, Time, Managing Time, Inspirational Stress Relief

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Inspirational, Breakup, Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Management

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

- Hans Selye

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

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.

- Marcus Aurelius

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Depression, Hurt And Pain, Inspirational Stress

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

- Richard Carlson

source: Richard Carlson (2016). “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, p.161, Mango Media Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Relaxation, Mentally Ill, Inspirational Stress

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Stress, Fishing, People, Hunting And Fishing, Stress And Life

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

- Steve Valentine

topic: Stress, Wake Up, Realizing, Under Stress, Stress Management

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

- Lily Tomlin

topic: Funny, Leadership, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Leading Causes

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

- Natalie Goldberg

topic: Stress, Earth, Forget, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Anxiety

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

- Will Rogers

topic: Funny, Life, Wisdom, Managing Time, Time Spent

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

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Success, Work, Stress, Important Work, Inspirational Stress Relief

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

- Dan Millman

topic: Stress, Mind, Resistance, Peaceful Warrior, Inspirational Stress

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 Burns

topic: Stress, Keys, Worry, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

- Natalie Goldberg

source: FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

topic: Stress, Believe, Ignorant, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

source: Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Keep Busy, Inspirational Adversity

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

- Aesop

topic: Peace, Stress, Food, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Anxiety

Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

- Natalie Imbruglia

source: Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

topic: Reality, Insanity, Humorous Birthday, Hurting You, Gold Digger

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.

- Dan Millman

topic: Life, Pain, Attitude, Peaceful Warrior, Inspirational Stress

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

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Letting Go, Fields, Tiny, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Life

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

- Norman Vincent Peale

topic: Happiness, Life Lesson, Stress, Inner Peace And Happiness, Inspirational Stress

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

- Margaret Fuller

source: Margaret Fuller (2012). “At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe”, p.159, tredition

topic: Funny, Life, Meaningful, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love

- Prem Prakash

source: Prem Prakash (1998). “The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras”, p.7, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

topic: Pain, Stress, Anxiety, Worthy Of Love, Stress And Anxiety