Excessive Stress Quotes

#1. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is?

Eckhart Tolle

#2. We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.

Peace Pilgrim

#3. If I can only live to see the American union firmly fixed, and free governments well established in our western world, and can leave to my children but a crust of bread and liberty, I shall die satisfied.

George Mason

#4. Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Brennan Manning

#5. There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

Homer

#6. I haven't got the time to sit here arguing with someone whose idea of a coherent foreign policy is what comes up in Google when you type in peace!

Tony Blair

#7. When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.

Deepak Chopra

#8. I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

Gail Carson Levine

#9. Although we had been led to believe our mission was suicidal, Russia's intrigue was irresistible. Almost twice the size of Australia, it spans 11 time zones from the Baltic to the Pacific.

Tim Cope

#10. A large percentage of what we think of when we talk about stress-related diseases are disorders of excessive stress-responses.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#11. Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions.

Aaron T. Beck

#12. I think 'Red Band Society' is unique because not only is it focusing on a pediatric ward, but it's from the view from the patient, not from the view of the doctors. So we're getting to see a whole other side of hospitals and medical series life that we haven't been able to see before.

Ciara Bravo

#13. Housework is the most productive procrastination close to a deadline.

Grant McLachlan

#14. The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.

John Friend

#15. You don't need to be legendary all the time. You can just be legendary for 10 minutes a day.

Caitlin Moran

#16. I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it was not there.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#17. I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

Melina Marchetta