Jonno White
Dec 8, 202222 min
1. When I’m grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals … it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.–Darby Stanchfield
2. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.”-- Etty Hillesum
3. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.–William James
4. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -- Grenville Kleiser
5. How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.–Spanish proverb
6. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.” — George Bernard Shaw
7. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” — Eckhart Tolle
8. “You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.” — Zig Ziglar
9. “You are still young and you aren’t supposed to have your whole life figured out yet. Don’t stress. Everything will work out.” – Jay Shetty
10. Your mindset matters. It affects everything–from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.–Peter Diamandis
11. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
12. Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.–Andrew J. Bernstein
13. An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality. –Brian Tracy
14. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression…It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” — Grenville Kleiser
15. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” — Charlie Chaplin
16. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.–Valerie Bertinelli
17. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” -- William S. Burroughs
18. Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.–Robert Eliot
19. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
20. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.–Melody Beattie
21. “Nothing is permanent in this wicked world — not even our troubles.” -- Charlie Chaplin
22. I believe dancing is the best stress reliever.–Dylan LaurenI’ve reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.–Wesley Snipes
23. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” — Benjamin Franklin
24. Creating something I can use is the best stress reliever.–Blake Lively
25. When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.–Peter Marshall
26. If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.–Deepak Chopra
27. It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.–Paulo Coelho
28. If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.–Doug Larson
29. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” -- Roy Bennett
30. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.–Richard Bach
31. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” --Walter Anderson
32. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
33. “Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.” — Lily Tomlin
34. “No longer forward nor behind I look in hope and fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here.” -- John G. Whittier
35. If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend.–Kris Carr
36. Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once. –Paulo Coelho
37. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” — Anonymous
38. The deepest fear we have, “the fear beneath all fears,” is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It’s this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.–Tullian Tchividjian
39. 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
40. Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.–Astrid Alauda
41. “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” — Sylvia Plath
42. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”-- Ali Ibn Abi Talib
43. “When you walk through a storm hold your head up high, and don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm is a golden sky, and the sweet silver song of a lark.” — Oscar Hammerstein II
44. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” -- Joseph Campbell
45. “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” — Anonymous
46. “There are two ways to get rid of an anxiety monster, my friend—you either have a bath or a nap.” — Andrew Kaufman
47. When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.–David Hallberg
48. Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.–Chinese proverb
49. “Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.” -- Benjamin Franklin
50. “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
51. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
52. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
53. “Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” — J. Donald Walters
54. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” — Charles Spurgeon
55. “Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” — Karen Salmansohn
56. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.” — Natalie Goldberg
57. For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.–Lily Tomlin
58. Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.–John De Paola
59. It’s not the load that breaks you dow, it’s the way you carry it. –Lou Holtz
60. Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answers.–William S. Burroughs
61. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.–Etty Hillesum
62. Stress is something that is sort of out of your control. You get stressed out over looking at the finish line. Stress is something that is an outside thing. Stress is an anxiety.–Joe Torre
63. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. –Confucius
64. “Today’s a perfect day for a whole new start. Let go of fear and free your mind. It’s time to open your heart.” -- Chris Butler
65. “Swap ‘Why is this happening to me?’ to ‘What is this trying to teach me?’. It will change everything.” – Jay Shetty
66. “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
67. We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.–Adam Braun
68. “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest taken between two deep breaths.”– Etty Hillesum
69. “The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
70. “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”-- William James
71. “Comedy is defiance. It’s a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it’s the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.” — Will Durst
72. “A smile can relax hundreds of muscles in your face, and relax your nervous system. A smile makes you master of yourself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
73. “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” -- Anonymous
74. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”– Dan Millman
75. “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.” -- Fred Rogers
76. Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find they haven’t half the strength you they have.–Norman Vincent Peale
77. “It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”– Mandy Hale
78. Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will. –Dr. Robert Anthony
79. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.–Natalie Goldberg
80. I’d like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war–a cool place where everyone could live.–Dionne Warwick
81. 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
82. “Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.” — Ziggy Marley
83. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.” — Norman Vincent Peale
84. You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.–Deepak Chopra
85. “Ask yourself, ‘Will this matter in twenty years?'” — Susan Ballinger
86. “The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain.” -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
87. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” — Robert Tew
88. “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
89. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” — Mary Tyler Moore
90. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” — Mary Hemingway
91. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.–Paulo Coelho
92. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” -- Robert Tew
93. You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.–Christopher Robin
94. “It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”-- Mandy Hale
95. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -- Epictetus
96. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” — Frank A. Clark
97. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” — William James
98. “Worrying isn’t going to change the situation so don’t waste your brain energy.” — Susan Ballinger
99. Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.–Nelson DeMil
100. “Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.” -- Anais Nin
101. “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” -- Frank A. Clark
102. Take chances, make mistakes–that is how we grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.–Mary Tyler Moore
103. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” — Jodi Picoult
104. “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect—on any front—and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.” — Fred Rogers
105. “Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” — Hermann Hesse
106. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” — Paulo Coelho
107. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.” -- Mary Hemingway
108. “The universe doesn’t allow perfection.” — Stephen Hawking
109. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.” -- Charles Glassman
110. In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics … am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise every day?–Edward Albert
111. If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good.–ntideva
112. Live in the moment, day by day, and don’t stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future that they kind of lose what’s in front of them.–Jenna Ushkowitz
113. “Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.”– Jacqueline Whitney
114. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” -- Brené Brown
115. Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. –Bill Phillips
116. Like all weak men, he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.–W. Somerset Maugham
117. You’ve got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.–Tilman J. Fertitta
118. “Anxiety’s like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn’t get you very far.” -- Jodi Picoult
119. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Henry Stanley Haskins
120. “Today’s a perfect day for a whole new start. Let go of fear and free your mind. It’s time to open your heart.” — Chris Butler
121. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” -- George Addair
122. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” -- Henry David Thoreau
123. “Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming.” – Robert Tew
124. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
125. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein
126. “Rule number one: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two: It’s all small stuff.” — Robert S. Eliot
127. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, not just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.” — Carl Sandburg
128. “There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.” — Henry David Thoreau
129. “Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.'” — Eckhart Tolle
130. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” — Cheryl Strayed
131. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.–Elbert Hubbard
132. Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there.”–Eckhart Tolle
133. “What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.” ~ Martha Graham
134. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” — Lao Tzu
135. The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.–Wayne Dyer
136. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.–John Lubbock
137. “Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you because it will.” -- Cheryl Strayed
138. There is more to life than increasing its speed.–Mahatma Gandhi
139. 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
140. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
141. “Calmness is the cradle of power.” — Josiah Gilbert Holland
142. You can’t always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.–Wayne Dyer
143. “Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.” -- Natalie Goldberg
144. “The elimination diet: Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame and worry. Then watch your health, and life, improve.” — Charles Glassman
145. Say NO to the demands of the world. Say YES to the longings of your own heart. –Jonathan Lockwood Huie
146. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.–Dean Smith
147. “Anxiety is a lot like a toddler. It never stops talking, tells you you’re wrong about everything, and wakes you up at 3 am.” — Anonymous
148. “Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.” — Heather Stillufsen
149. “‘The reason why you’re always stressed is because you want this moment to be something that it’s not,’ she said. ‘You just stop and you accept this moment for what it is. Just breathe right into that moment and it takes the anxiety and the pressure away of wanting this moment to be something it’s not.'” — Oprah Winfrey
150. You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.–Marie Osmond
151. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”-- Dan Millman
152. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
153. Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance.
154. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” — Roy Bennett
155. Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don’t remember what life was like without it.–Andrew J. Bernstein
156. “How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.” — Thomas Jefferson
157. When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go. –Catherine Pulsifer
158. Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious.–Anon
159. “P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.” — Danielle LaPorte
160. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — Virginia Woolf
161. 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
162. “If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.” — Brené Brown
163. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou
164. “You have dug your soul out of the dark, you have fought to be here; do not go back to what buried you.” -- Bianca Sparacino
165. “Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the most wonderful things that will ever happen to us.” — Nicole Reed
166. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.” -- Anonymous proverb
167. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Anonymous
168. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -- Maya Angelou
169. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” — David Mamet
170. Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.–Srikumar Rao
171. “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
172. Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.–Hans Selye
173. “Going through things you never thought you’d go through will only take you places you never thought you’d get to.” — Morgan Harper Nichols
174. “No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” -- Karen Salmansohn
175. “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr
176. 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
177. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
178. “Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.” -- Charles Spurgeon
179. “In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go.” — Jack Kornfield
180. “Everything you have ever wanted, is sitting on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
181. Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.–Ziggy Marley
182. Don’t stress the could haves, if it should have, it would have.
183. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” — Steve Maraboli
184. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” — Kahlil Gibran
185. “Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.” -- Max Lucado
186. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable. –Greg Anderson
187. “I just give myself permission to suck…I find this hugely liberating.” — John Green
188. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. –Arnold Schwarzenegger
189. Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”
190. Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.–Joyce Meyer
191. Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don’t have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.–Daisaku Ikeda
192. It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.–Hans Selye
193. “We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.” — Christopher Hitchens
194. “Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.” -- Zig Ziglar
195. “Keep walking through the storm. Your rainbow is waiting on the other side.” -- Heather Stillufsen
196. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” — Deepak Chopra
197. Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.–Benjamin Franklin
198. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. –Kahlil Gibran
199. 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
200. “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” -- Arthur Somers Roche
201. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
202. “No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past.” — Karen Salmansohn
203. “Actually spending ten minutes clearing off one shelf is better than fantasizing about spending a weekend cleaning out the basement.” — Gretchen Rubin
204. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” -- Eleanor Roosevelt
205. “Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.” — Arthur Somers Roche
206. Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie
207. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” -- Deepak Chopra
208. “Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” — William S. Burroughs
209. There’s a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don’t let anybody tell you any different, because everyone’s special and everyone’s awesome.–McKayla Maroney
210. 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
211. florals in pink peach and lavender on a pale green background with one of many calming quotes for stress by maya angelou
212. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.–Bertrand Russell
213. “P.S. You’re not going to die. Here’s the white-hot truth: if you go bankrupt, you’ll still be okay. If you lose the gig, the lover, the house, you’ll still be okay. If you sing off-key, get beat by the competition, have your heart shattered, get fired…it’s not going to kill you. Ask anyone who’s been through it.” -- Danielle LaPorte
214. “Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.” -- Paulo Coelho
215. One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.–Viggo Mortensen
216. That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don’t have to think.–David O. McKay
217. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” -- Steve Maraboli
218. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.–Unknown
219. “Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.” — Dalai Lama
220. It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.–Tony Robbins
221. It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.–Richard Carlson
222. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou
223. “What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?” — Thomas á Kempis
224. Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.–Joshua L. Liebman
225. “If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
226. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I want to be.” -- Lao Tzu
227. We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.–John Newton
228. “Do what you can, with what you’ve got, where you are.” -- Theodore Roosevelt
229. It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.–Bruce Lee
230. We’ve all had stress creep up on us without even noticing it until we lost it on someone who didn’t deserve it, and then we realize that we probably should have checked in with ourselves a little earlier.–Ariel Garten
231. Everything you need you already have; you are complete right now. You are a whole total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.–Wayne Dyer
232. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” -- Amit Ray
233. A year from now, everything you’re stressing about won’t even matter.–Anon
234. Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.–Winnie the Pooh
235. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” — Amit Ray
236. “Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety; after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly.”– Ali Ibn Abi Talib
237. “In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” — Mitch Albom
238. Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think.–Bill Clinton
239. Taking time to contemplate what you’re grateful for isn’t merely the “right” thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23 percent.–Travis Bradberry
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241. “Smile, breathe, and go slowly.” -- Thich Nhat Hanh
242. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” — Grenville Kleiser
243. “We all have anxiety about things. We all have little insecurities, but eventually you have to face your fears if you want to be successful, and everybody has some fear of failure.” — Nick Saban
244. 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
245. “Hey you, keep living. It won’t always be this overwhelming.”-- Jacqueline Whitney
246. Worrying is like a rocking chair. it gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere. –English proverb
247. “Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.” –Walter Anderson
248. “Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we’re taking on too much, but because we’re taking on too little of what really strengthens us.” — Marcus Buckingham
249. Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose. –Maureen Killoran
250. Stress is an important dragon to slay–or at least tame–in your life.–Marilu Henner