Inspirational Stress Relief Quotes:

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

- Ovid

topic: Inspirational, Wisdom, Stress, May Day, Inspirational Stress

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

- Etty Hillesum

topic: Appreciation, Prayer, Yoga, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Life

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

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

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

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Inspirational, Sad, Women, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Management

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

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

- Hans Selye

topic: Inspirational, Stress, Anxiety, 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

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Spirit Of Life, Meaning 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

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

- W. H. Davies

source: Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

topic: Life, Humor, Care, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Life

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

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

- A. A. Milne

topic: Happiness, Appreciation, Retirement, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Live with the objective of being happy.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational Diversity, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Relief, Life And Happiness, Joy And Happiness

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

source: Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

topic: Stress, Color, Rainbow, Inspirational Retirement, Inspirational Stress Relief

The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

- Wayne Dyer

topic: Motivational, Worry, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress And Worry

Many of us have road maps we envision for the course we think our lives should take. It's important to get headed in the right direction, but don't get so caught up in the concerns over your destination that you forget to delight in the scenery of each new day. Remember that 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

source: Alin Austin, Douglas Pagels (1993). “100 Things to Always Remember-- and One Thing to Never Forget”, Blue Mountain Arts

topic: Thinking, Rushing, New Day, Inspirational Stress Relief, De Stress

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

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

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

topic: Happiness, Stress, Caring, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief

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

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

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

- Garson Kanin

topic: Stress, Self, Expression, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Relief

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

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

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

- Susan Mitchell

source: Susan Mitchell, Catherine Christie (1998). “I'd Kill for a Cookie: A Simple Six-Week Plan to Conquer Stress Eating”, Plume

topic: Success, Stress, Feelings, Inspirational Stress Relief, Stress Relief

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

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, Baron George

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

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

- Aesop

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

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

- Anne Frank

source: 1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

topic: Happiness, Happy, Soulmate, Inspirational Diversity, Just Be Happy

You can't worry about things you have no control over.

- Steve Nash

topic: Stress, Worry, Don't Stress, Inspirational Stress, Inspirational Stress Relief