A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
-Aesop
"Aesop’s Fables"
Quotations
Stress
Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.
-William Nathaniel "Bill" Phillips
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
-Natalie Goldberg
"Wild Mind:Living the Writer’s Life"
Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime.
-Jeb Dickerson
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
-Jerome K. Jerome
"The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow"
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
-Will Rogers
"Autobiography"
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
-Richard Carlson
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
-William James
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-Bertrand Russell
Stress is the trash of modern life — we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
-Terri Guillemets
