You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.
If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.
Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.
Being less stressed doesn't mean that you stop doing things.
If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.
I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.
Fear and stress - one creates the other.
Resentment creates stress.
The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.
To overcome stress you have to find out something. You've got to do some research and homework. You need to find out who you are today.
It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.
They would make the 'Church ' their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they have more devoutness and less devotion, more fear and less love, more feeling of duty than of desire, laying more stress on Phil. ii. 12 than ver. 13, and in practice working upon the intellect and imagination rather than aiming at the heart, skirmishing among the outworks rather than assaulting the citadel.
Whenever I start freaking out and getting stressed, I have to remember that this is just the beginning.
I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
Most people, in committing a suicidal act, are just as muddled as when they do anything important under emotional stress. Carefully planned acts of suicide are as rare as carefully planned acts of homicide.
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.
Let's say you have to catch a plane, and you are packing your suitcase and moving fast. Most people would call that stress. Most people live stressed like that all the time.
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.
I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.
We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.
I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.
The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.
Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.
Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.
