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Quotations on Stress
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COPING, STRESS, STABILITY,
SINE WAVE, CHANGE, ADVERSITY, FORTUNE
"Be not elated by fortune, be not depressed by adversity."
Cleobulus
ANXIETY, BOREDOM, ANGST, WORK, CHALLENGE
"Absence of occupation is not rest,
A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed."
Cowper, Retirement
FEEDBACK, BLOOD, STRESS, MIND, PHYSIOLOGY
...we know that the vasomotor system, which regulates the capillary circulation,
is much influenced by the mind.
Charles Darwin, Expression of The Emotions In Man And
Animals
"Two rules for stress management: "Rule one: Don't sweat the small
stuff. Rule two: It's all small stuff"
Robert Elliot
Man can preserve a vestige of spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even
in such terrible conditions of psychic and physical stress.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
"Remember to preserve an even mind in adverse circumstances, and likewise
in prosperity a mind free from overweening joy."
Horace, Odes
Stress is the heart's jailer.
Kall
ANXIETY, STRESS, ANGUISH
...restless thoughts, that like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found
alone,
But rush upon me thronging..
Milton
STRESS, CATASTROPHIZING, RUMINATION, WORRY
"Mild heaven disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day."
Milton, John
'Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: every
thing either ascends or declines: when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at
home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through
ambition.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
"It is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed."
Seneca, De Clementia
At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete
freeing of the muscles.
Stanislavski, Constantin
Periods of tranquility are seldom profilic of creative achievement. Mankind has
to be stirred up.
Alfred North Whitehead
"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out."
WOLCOT, JOHN, 1738-1819
ANXIETY, STRESS
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the
sunlight.
Ben Franklin
- "We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is
the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people.".
- Brad Blanton, author of Radical
Honesty.
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