For Fast-Acting Relief, Try Slowing Down…
Posted by Mush Panjwani on December 5, 2009
Thanks to all those who read and forwarded and commented on the post on Stress. You can view all the comments here - some very interesting perspectives and useful tips on managing stress. Seeing the level of interest, I have put together some nice quotes on stress:
- The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. ~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris
- Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. ~Richard Carlson
- For fast-acting relief, try slowing down. ~Lily Tomlin
- The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. ~Author Unknown
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. ~Bertrand Russell
- Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. ~Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind
- Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering. ~Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
- There is more to life than increasing its speed. ~Mohandas K. Gandhi
- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. ~Aesop, Fables
- Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. ~John De Paola
- How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward. ~Spanish Proverb
- Stress is poison. ~Agavé Powers
- It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. ~Jerome K. Jerome, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
- Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax. ~Hartman Jule
- Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. ~Chinese Proverb
- Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world. ~Carrie Latet
Please share your favorite quotes through comments.
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sadaf said
Calvin Coolidge, 30th US President, said it very well, “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Geniuses will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”