Have you been stressed lately? The ability to select one thought over another is our most powerful stress-relieving tool. Stress does not kill us; rather, it is how we respond to it. We’ve compiled a list of inspirational quotes about stress relief, for you mood when down. Read on!
1. Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go.
2. There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. – Dalai Lama
3. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”―Aesop
4. Take life day by day, be grateful for the little things, and try not to stress over what you can’t control.
5. Storms don’t last forever.
6. Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. – William S. Burroughs
7. “In times of life crisis, whether wildfires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics … am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise every day?”—Edward Albert
8. “Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.” – Joyce Meyer
9. “Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.”—Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski
10. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small . Just. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”—Robert Eliot
11. Stress Relief Quotes – “Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction.” – Chelsea Erieau
12. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King
13. This too shall pass and I can stand this.
14. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”—Kahlil Gibran
15. “Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction.” – Chelsea Erieau
16. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago.”—E. Joseph Cossman
17. are living under the collective delusion, that in order to succeed we have to burnout along the way. – Arianna Huffington
18. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”—Albert Einstein
19. “When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in 5 years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.”―Catherine Pulsifer
20. “My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.”―Ashton Eaton
21. You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens. – Mandy Hale
22. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.” – Steve Maraboli
23. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”―Robert W. Service
24. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”―Winnie the Pooh
25. Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate. – Renee Jain
26. “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.”—Danzae Pace
27. “Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.” – Tao Porchon-Lynch
28. You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you. – Dan Millman
29. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”―John Lubbock
30. “There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated.”—Gudjon Bergmann
31. “Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.” – Andrew J. Bernstein
32. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”―John Newton
33. “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou
34. “Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.”—Maureen Killoran
35. “There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That’s what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.” – Garson Kanin
36. Overthinking is the biggest cause of our unhappiness. Keep yourself occupied. Keep your mind off things that don’t help you. Think positively.
37. It all begins and ends in your mind. Whatever you give power to, has power over you. If you allow it.
38. STOP TRYING TO CALM THE STORM. CALM YOURSELF THE STORM WILL PASS. – TIMBER HAWKEYE
39. “Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.”—Renee Jain
40. “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”—Najwa Zebian
41. “To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.”-Jill Botte Taylor
42. “Take chances, make mistakes–that is how we grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore
43. “Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.”—Paulo Coelho
44. “Stress is like spice – in the right proportion, it enhances the flavour of a dish. Too little produces a bland, dull meal; too much may choke you.”—Donald Tubesing
45. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”—Marcus Aurelius
46. No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world. – Wayne Dyer
47. “There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.”―William George Jordan
48. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”―Elbert Hubbard
49. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” – James Allen
50. “Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.” – Srikumar Rao
51. “The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.” – Katrina Mayer
52. “Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.” – Andrew J. Bernstein
53. “Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction.” – Chelsea Erieau
54. “Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.” – Srikumar Rao
55. “The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.” – Katrina Mayer
“Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction. The darkest hour only has 60 minutes. “Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.”
Hope these quotes about being stress free will help you overcome every difficult time and situation, where you’ll finally find peace and rest.
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StudentsandScholarship Team.