Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deepak Chopra

When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.

Deepak Chopra

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

Deepak Chopra

During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

Britney Spears

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about.

Brandon Sanderson

Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.

Ben Okri

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

Arthur Koestler

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

Dick Van Dyke

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this, it's this, it's that. But I - it's - I think - I really believe there is a gene. Some people become addicted and others don't.

Dean Ornish

Stress is not so much what you do, but how you react to what you do.

Dean Ornish

Love and intimacy are at the roots of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing...I am not aware of any other factor in medicine- not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery- that has a greater impact on our quality of life, incidence of illness and premature death from all causes.

Dean Smith

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person, creates a bond which nothing seems able to break.

Edward Abbey

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

Edward Abbey

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

Ben Horowitz

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

Alexandra Kotur

I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

Albert Einstein

Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

Alexander Lowen

Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.

Aaron Levie

The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.

Aaron Levie

When you're doing something you're passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

A. R. Ammons

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Alexander Hamilton

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a little learning will do, well-bread, chaste, and tender. As to religion, a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in God and hate a saint.

Cyril Connolly

Industrial society seems likely to be entering a period of severe stress, due in part to problems of human behavior and in part to economic and environmental problems

Dan Millman

In life, stress happens when you resist what arises.

Dan Millman

Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

Corrie Ten Boom

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

Conan O'Brien

Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you.

Courtney Barnett

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

Oprah Winfrey

All stress comes from resisting what is.

David Ortiz

I stress a lot, sometimes.

David O. McKay

That which a man continually thinks about determines his actions in times of opportunity and stress. I will know what you are if you tell me what you think about when you don't have to think.