43 Quotes by Hans Selye

What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet. We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of the body.

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Stress is the spice of life.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.