Stress Reduction Quotes:

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

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

Stress reduction, greater physical health, a deeper sense of spirit, more creativity, a sense of play, even a safer life-these are the rewards that await a family then it invites more nature into children's lives.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.131, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Nature, Children, Stress, Stress Reduction

Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Stress, Meditation, Anxiety, Clear Minds, Stress And Anxiety

I suggest people simply start off meditation by practicing twice a day for 5 - 10 minutes, and explore what it's like to meditate. The stress reduction and mental peace starts to become a highly desirable state. After all, it's great to let go of the worries of life!

- Tim McCarthy

topic: Letting Go, Stress, Worry, Mental Peace, Stress Reduction

[W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.

- Myrna Blyth

topic: Stress, Two, Long Walks, Stress Reduction, Moral Judgment