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It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

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What puts us so much under pressure? How can we respond when we are having a hard time? What can we change in order to avoid crisis in the future? Here is a collection of almost 100 thoughts and inspirations where you can choose from for relaxation or contemplation.
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It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Tony Robbins
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When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Winston Churchill
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The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sydney J. Harris
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You can't always control what goes on outside, but you can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer
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Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.
Srikumar Rao
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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach
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We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.
Adam Braun
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Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.
Andrew J. Bernstein
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Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
Joyce Meyer
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
David Allen
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Take chances, make mistakes--that is how we grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
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In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Lee Iacocca
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You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin
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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
Bruce Lee
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find they haven't half the strength you thought they have.
Norman Vincent Peale
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
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We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
Unknown
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It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.
Paulo Coelho
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answers.
William S. Burroughs
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Doing something that is productive is a great way to alleviate emotional stress. Get your mind doing something that is productive.
Ziggy Marley
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Stress is caused by being "here" but wanting to be "there."
Eckhart Tolle
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When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall
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Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
Chinese proverb
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Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
Natalie Goldberg
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If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good.
Śāntideva
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In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
Fred Rogers
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
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Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
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It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans Selye
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Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.
John De Paola
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There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.
Garson Kanin
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Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
Nelson DeMil
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If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
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Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman
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If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
Dean Smith
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If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
George Burns
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Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.
Spanish proverb
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Robert Eliot
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
Winnie the Pooh
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Your mindset matters. It affects everything - from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.
Peter Diamandis
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For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
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I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.
Dionne Warwick
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