Stress Relief Quotes

I just published another hub 'Are you a Stress Addict?' and in it I recommended meditation to help in changing your focus to relieve the stress cycle that so many of us are enmeshed in. Here are some of the quotations that I used with my meditation practices. Sometimes I used them as a mantra while I meditated and other times I concentrated on them before and after I meditated to help the message sink in. I think they helped me and I hope they help you also.

"Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

~~ M. Scott Peck

"Sometimes we're tempted to create what we think a smart, popular, or 'normal' person would make. But our work is best when we're just being our own peculiar selves."

~ Sharon Olds

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

-William Somerset Maugham

"You cannot look for evidence that it is not working and ever get it to work. You have flipped the switch to off when you say I see not the evidence i want to see."

---Abraham-Hicks

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

~~ Elizabeth Blackwell

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself. 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

~~ Epecietus

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

~~ Golda Meir

“Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

If you don't act the danger becomes greater.

~~ Ai Weiwei

I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

~~ Florence Nightingale

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words.

~~ Joyce Brothers

"You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining"

~~ Og Mandino

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

~~ Nikki Giovanni

'Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

~~ Margaret Preston

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

- John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

~~ Lady Bird Johnson

You will not be discouraged if the world does not rush to you, demanding what you have ..... Neither will you quietly sit down to let the world wonder and then see you; but you will be aggressive; you will carry your truths to people and cause them to see them so clearly that they must accept them.

~~ Edith Kincaid Butler

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

- Florence Scovel Shinn, writer, artist and teacher (1871-1940)

You can't invent events. They just happen. But you have to be prepared to deal with them when they happen.

~~ Constance Baker Motley

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

-Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)

When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.

~~ Anon

"There ya go man! Keep as cool as you can. Face piles of trials with smiles, it riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave. And keep on being free!!"

-The Moody Blues

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

~~ Jim Rohn

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."

~~ Charles Dudley Warner

You are where you are right now b/c of your best thinking. If you want something different,change your thinking.

-Tony Rush

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

~~ Kurt Vonnegut

"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."

— Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

~~ Aristotle.

"No matter how occupied a man may be, he must snatch at least one hour for study daily."

-The Bratzlaver (1770-1811)

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

~~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.

- Tommy Lasorda

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

- George Lois

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

~~ Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Writer and Humorist

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to start where he was."

~~ Lao-Tzu

"You don't get ulcers from what you eat, but from what's eating you."

~~ Albert Cliffe

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe you can achieve.

~~ May Kay Ash

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

~~ Anonymous

“Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.”

-- William O. Douglas

"It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you."

~~ Lillian Hellman

"The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself."

~~ Sonja Henie.

"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on." Oprah Winfrey

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

~~ Denis Waitley

Being superior in a certain way does not elevate me above someone else.

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does"

~ William James

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

~Winston Churchill

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Les Brown

"Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."

~~ Alfred A. Montapert

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

~~ Something More 'The Holy Longing'

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Watch your words, they become actions.

Watch your actions, they become habits.

Watch your habits, they become your character.

Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

- Frank Outlaw

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

~~ Victoria Holt

"We do not accept ourselves for what we are, we retreat from our real selves, and then we erect a personality to bridge the gap."

-Susan Sontag, 1963

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

~William James