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These Quotes Will Soothe You When You Are Too Stressed To Function

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These Quotes Will Soothe You When You Are Too Stressed To Function

When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly collecting yourself and using controlled breathing you remain afloat with ease.

— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace

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You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free

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No matter how strong or strong-willed you are, you cannot live a stressful, maxed-out life without that pace eventually biting you in the butt. It is necessary to take breaks, set parameters, and be kind to yourself if you want to continue making an impact in your little corner of the world.

— Cynthia Mendenhall, Spunkify Your Life: 8 Secrets to Living with More Focus, Fascination, and Fun

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If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress.

— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress

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When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.

— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

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Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don’t break when battered by a storm.

— Melanie Greenberg PhD, The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity

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Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!

— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365: Daily thoughts for Positive Living

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My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

— Mahogany SilverRain, Ebony Encounters: A Trilogy of Erotic Tales

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Most emotional and physical symptoms of stress and depression are not typically caused by the circumstances themselves, but instead by how our minds perceive what is going on and how our hearts hold up under the pressure.

— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World

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But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

— Michael Gruber, The Good Son: A Novel

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Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.

— Toni Bernhard, How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers

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Majority of people who are easily stressed are the one's who think too much about the problems instead of solutions. Always focus on solutions.

— Subodh Gupta, Stress Management a Holistic Approach

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If you are in a pit of stress or despair, don’t succumb to defeat. Don’t accept that difficult place as your fate.

— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World

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The things we don’t stress tend to turn out best. Trust and let go.

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman

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Take the next 24 hours and just relax with the knowing that everything is okay. Let go of the stress and worry for one day and see what happens.

— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge

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Just as a stressful life can make you depressed, continuing exposure to stressors maintains depression.

— Jonathan Rottenberg, The Depths: The Evolutionary Origins of the Depression Epidemic

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You are only plagued with stress in moments of conflict because you are arrogant, and believe others are transgressing by having unfavorable thoughts about you.

— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

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You are not stress...you are experiencing stress. You are not anxiety...you are experiencing anxiety. You are not fear...you are experiencing fear. You can recognize the fact that you are not your emotions and simply accept the experience of that emotion and move right through it.

— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge

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Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require more time and effort and at a high cost, causing a great deal of disruption and stress

— Beth Ramsay, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people

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Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

— Chris Prentiss, Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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

— Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

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Stress is equivalent to weapons of mass destruction armed for wrong reasons. The difference is that, it is less costly as compared to the atomic bombs! However, it destroys faster!

— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365: Daily thoughts for Positive Living

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Spare the stress on your neck muscles... Looking backward takes more energy; it's more painful than looking forward! Go ahead!

— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365: Daily thoughts for Positive Living

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Stress can destroy much more than just our physical health. Too often, it eats away at our hope, belief, and faith.

— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

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When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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No one ever wants to hear about how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't a conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.

— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)

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The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

— Roy F. Baumeister, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

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Stress kills when you fuel the initial reaction with negative thoughts, aggressive behavior, belief and trust in the uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms it causes. Don’t fuel it, and watch how fast stress disappears.

— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

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Overworking leads to exhaustion.

— Mrs Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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Stop stressin' and be a blessin'.

— T. F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

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Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

— Amit Ray, Living Moment Breath

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According to research, people who live with animals have decreased anxiety and lower blood pressure. They have lower cholesterol. They are more relaxed and less stressed and are, overall, in better health. U

— Mary Kubica, The Good Girl

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Let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about 'me.'

— David Michie, Mindfulness Is Better Than Chocolate: A Practical Guide to Enhanced Focus and Lasting Happiness in a World of Distractions

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When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.

— Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

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I admit. I confess. I confront. The three likely phrase to live stressless.

— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer

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I find that my days are far more smooth and pleasant when I don’t give someone the leverage to annoy or stress me. Just smile, giggle to yourself, or wave.

— Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

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Stress itself is not what’s toxic. It’s our relationship to it that's the hazard.

— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life

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No matter how much you stress or obsess about the past or future, you can't change either one. In the present is where your power lies.

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman

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Fear, anxiety, stress and panic, all these are basic evolutionary expression of the human brain. They are part of the normal human condition.

— Abhijit Naskar, The Islamophobic Civilization: Voyage of Acceptance

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Whether we know it or choose to admit it, we are either an Encourager or a Discourager. We each make a choice as to which type we will be… every day. Discouragers bring ‘stresspools.’ I call any of those places that add unnecessary stress and aggravation ‘stresspools.’ They are just as stinky and rotten as cesspools, but ‘stresspools’ wreak of tension, strain, anxiety, worry, hassle, pressure, and emotional trauma.

— Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

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Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.

— T. F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

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When you are stressed on mind... to pour it out, is the behavior, most kind!

— Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!

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What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

— Criss Jami, Killosophy

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The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

— Frank Herbert, Dune

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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, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

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I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.

— Dr. Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.

— Dillon Burroughs, Hunger No More: A 1-Year Devotional Journey Through the Psalms

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Rest and your energy will be restored.

— Mrs Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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We are all tired of the stress.

— K. Howard Joslin, Honest Wrestling: Questions of Faith When Attacked by Life

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