1,138 Quotes About Stress

Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night.

Feeling stressed...? Get your bike, go on a ride...

I knew what he was doing. He was walking away from his thoughts but his thoughts were staying with him.

Make your friends a priority, so they are not lost to the black hole of a busy, hurried life.

Nothing happens by overthinking; then why stress? Is it too hard to sit down and relax!

Darkness is clever, insidious, and patient. It wants to win. And it wins by snuffing out the light. It’s so literal that you can’t stand it.

...we fail to live in the moment. We miss the laughter, beauty and joy in our midst, trading them for stress, frustration, anxiety and anger. We forge ahead consumed with the destination while missing the journey. In a sense, we're taking God's precious gift of presence and time and telling Him it isn't what we want, that we don't have the time.