Quotes About Combat Stress

#1. The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

William James

#2. Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals.

Tom Glenn

#3. Bryony began laughing, with a great deal of bitterness to be sure, but still, laughter. That had always been her great gift and her besetting sin, that even in the darkest and most somber times, she had the urge to laugh.

T. Kingfisher

#4. Truths are dangerous," he said.
"Then why are you writing them in a book?"
"To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

Kristin Cashore

#5. A zest for living must include a willingness to die.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. I quite like androgyny.

Bat For Lashes

#7. The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.

William D. Hoard

#8. We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

Pope Francis

#9. Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

Marianne Williamson

#10. You'll never know that you had all of me. You'll never know the poetry you've stirred in me.

Kate Bush

#11. There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.

William James

#12. I love your round head,
the brilliant green,
the watching blue,
these letters,
this world, you.
I am very, very hungry.

Kate DiCamillo

#13. When a thought appears such as "Do the dishes" and you don't do them, notice how an internal war breaks out ... The stress and weariness you feel are really mental combat fatigue.

Byron Katie

#14. To plunge into passionate dispute over the trivialities of so-called honor is a queerer but not uncommon gambit of men who have just come from putting their lives at stake in serious combat,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Samuel E. Morison

#16. The big lie out there, the big lie that the Republicans propagate day after day, is that cutting marginal rates for those at the top is going to create jobs. It's simply not true.

Eliot Spitzer

#17. The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn't who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.

Robert Koger