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."
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
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.
Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivot of fear.
A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
The work will wait while you watch the rainbow, the rainbow won't wait while you work.
Life is not merely the gaps between periods of work.
Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
Worry is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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.
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.
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.
Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.