Don't get burned out. We all need to slow down once in awhile. Here are some motivational quotes to refresh your feeling. May these quotes give you a sense of comfort of mind.
To someone who deserves a break :)
"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it."
--George F. Burns
"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
--Margaret Fuller
"To be "on edge," you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center."
--Carrie Latet
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
--Sylvia Plath
"Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea."
--Frederick Saunders
"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
--Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
--Ovid
"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you."
--John De Paola
"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."
--Douglas Pagels
"Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it."
--Hans Selye
"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
--Wayne Dyer
"A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
--William Henry Davies
"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive."
--Lee Iacocca quotes
"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down."
--Lily Tomlin
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time."
--J. Lubbock
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
--Etty Hillesum
"Stress is the physical and psychological effects we experience as a result of the way we react to changes in the surrounding environment."
--Pavel Stoyanov
"No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it."
--Harry Emerson Fosdick
"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
--Sydney J. Harris
"The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Give your stress wings and let it fly away."
--Terri Guillemets
"Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down."
--Natalie Goldberg
"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries."
--Astrid Alauda
"How we perceive a situation and how we react to it is the basis of our stress. If you focus on the negative in any situation, you can expect high stress levels. However, if you try and see the good in the situation, your stress levels will greatly diminish."
--Catherine Pulsifer
"Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax."
--Hartman Jule
"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
"Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness."
--Richard Carlson
"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."
--Alvin Toffler
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward."
--Spanish Proverb
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. "
--Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
"We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves."
--Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"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."
--Author Unknown
"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone."
--Susan Mitchell and Catherine Christie
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important."
--Bertrand Russell
"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
Is everything as urgent as your stress would imply?
--Carrie Latet
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
--Marcus Aurelius
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
--Will Rogers
"In times of stress, be bold and valiant."
--Horace
"There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point."
--Dr. James C. Dobson
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
--Aesop
"Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow."
--Douglas Pagels
"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."
--Joshua L. Liebman
"More important, you have to stay happy and positive or the stress will kill you - but at least it will make you skinny."
--Joely Fisher
"There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers."
--H.M. Tomlinson
"Worry and stress affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects heart action."
--Charles W. Mayo, M.D
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do."
--Jerome K. Jerome
"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."
--Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."
--Milan Kundera
"Stress is inner biofeedback, signaling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn't to hurt you, but to let you know it's time to go back to the heart and start loving."
--Sara Paddison
"The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself."
--H.L. Mencken
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"Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime."
--Jeb Dickerson
"If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched."
--Terri Guillemets
"Stress is poison."
--Agavé Powers
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
--Chinese Proverb
"Things could be a lot worse, the stress of the situation always could be worse, but I am alive and I have a lot to be thankful for - so I shall not waste my days with stress and frustrations - Life is too short"
--Catherine Pulsifer
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