Stress Relief Quotes:

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

- Marilu Henner

topic: Stress, Keys, Expectations, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Anxiety

Being empowered includes developing the powerful qualities that lead human beings to cultivate wellness and healing. And those are the same qualities that enhance all relationships on earth and reduce stress (which seems to be the largest precursor to disease)-gentle ness, calmness, patience, humility, compassion, and gratitude.

- Bryan Kest

topic: Gratitude, Powerful, Stress, Stress Relief, Precursor

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

- Lysa TerKeurst

topic: Stress, Abundance, Stress Relief

Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. Exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

- Charles Duhigg

source: "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change". Book by Charles Duhigg, April 5, 2012.

topic: Exercise, People, Stressed, Positive Change, Stress Relief

Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.

- Jonathan Haidt

source: Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.35, Basic Books

topic: Success, Memories, Self Esteem, Stress Relief, Spiritual Transformation

Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

- Yanni

source: Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

topic: Spiritual, Hurt, Stress, Music And Life, Stress Relief

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

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

Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.

- Tim Ryan

source: Tim Ryan (2012). “A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit”, p.17, Hay House, Inc

topic: Stress, Past, Space, Stress Relief, Stuck In The Past

Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul.

- Robert Tisserand

source: Robert Tisserand (1988). “Aromatherapy: To Heal and Tend the Body”, Lotus Press (WI)

topic: Stress, Caring, Hands, Mind Body And Soul, Stress Relief

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

- William James

topic: Happiness, Fear, Stress, Inspirational Stress, Pragmatists

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

- David Allen

topic: Life, Motivational, Happiness, Inspirational Stress, Stop Procrastination

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

- Hans Selye

topic: Stress, Survival, Becoming, Inspirational Stress, Stress And Life

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

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

- Hans Selye

topic: Positive, Happiness, Attitude, Aimlessness, My Attitude

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

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

source: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.73, Random House

topic: Stress, Anger, Relief, Stress Relief

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

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

Yoga really helped with stress relief and just not hurting myself when I tour. It really was super helpful.

- John Feldmann

topic: Hurt, Stress, Yoga, Hurting Myself, Stress Relief

In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Jobs, Stress, Careers, Stress Relief

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

- Lily Tomlin

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

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

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

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

- Lily Tomlin

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

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

- Hans Selye

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

An office is a place to... live life to the fullest. To the max. To... an office is a place where dreams come true.

- Steve Carell

topic: Dream, Live Life, Office, Stress Relief, Live Life To The Fullest

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

Live with the objective of being happy.

- Anne Frank

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

According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. (The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

- Kelly McGonigal

source: Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins

topic: Sports, Religious, Stress, Stress Relief, Surfing The Internet

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

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