Quotable Quotes

Stress & Worry, Rest & Relaxation

If you don't find balance between pressure and pleasure, your epitaph is going to read "Got everything done. Died anyway."

- Dr Paul Pearsall, 'Toxic Success'

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

- Natalie Goldberg, 'Wild Mind'

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

- Max Eastman

Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear.

- Author Unknown

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.

- Author Unknown

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

- Cullen Hightower

The work will wait while you watch the rainbow, the rainbow won't wait while you work.

- Dr Paul Pearsall, 'Toxic Success'

Life is not merely the gaps between periods of work.

- Michaela Thomas, Aequilibra

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

- Mac McCleary

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.

- Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

- Glenn Turner

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

- Pat Schroeder

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

- E. Joseph Cossman

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

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

- Douglas Pagels, 'These Are the Gifts I'd Like to Give to You'

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

- Arthur Lacey

Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.

- Theodore N. Vail

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.

- Etty Hillesum

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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