Overstressed Quotes

#1. Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

Gail Sheehy

#2. It seems to me it would do us all good to act from our heart more often. We'll be surprised how small acts of attention and kindness can release the energy, enthusiasm, and imagination bottled up in our overstressed minds and bodies.

Tim Ryan

#3. Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.

Annie Leonard

#4. While the pressures of life are inevitable, if at the end of the day you are unable to completely let go of the day and return to a calm, centered inner state, you are overstressed.

Deepak Chopra

#5. For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel.

Erik Larson

#6. Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one ... This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. The Stemwinders made the most bizarre ratcheting sound, like the stripping of gears combined with the metallic whine of an overstressed steel cable.

Ian Tregillis

#8. She found that books, the well-written ones, had the power to transport her from a world that was sometimes overstressed and over stimulating to a wholly new place of the author's imaginations.

J.N. LaVelle

#9. Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one ... I can well believe it.

Dodie Smith

#10. Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

Guru Nanak

#11. The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one's behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three "f's": feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important "c": contrivance.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#12. I am perceiving everyone, including myself, as an awakening being who is here to claim his or her birthright to the higher consciousness planes of unconditional love and oneness.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#13. Your spirit is sweet
So pull off your sheet
And give me a ghost of a smile
Show me your teeth
'Cause you're teddy beneath
So just grin and bear it a while.

Owl City

#14. Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another's sex life.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#15. If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.

Dillon Burroughs

#16. Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'

Peter Golenbock

#18. I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Jonathan Edwards

#19. ... surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

David Nicholls

#20. Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.

Tomoki Kameda

#21. Traffic will not yield to our will, neither will global finances, the environment, political rhetoric, nor people in general. There is no way to solve the problem of stress through blaming environmental factors.

Gudjon Bergmann

#22. Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.

Elliott Yamin