100+ Motivational and Powerful Stress Relief Quotes(2022)
MOTIVATIONAL AND POWERFUL STRESS RELIEF QUOTES (2022)
1) ”In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”- Fred Rogers
2) ”When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”-Winston Churchill
3) ”A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”- Albert Einstein
4) ”One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”-Bertrand Russell
5) ”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 Burns
6) ”When you feel overwhelmed, start eliminating all the non-essential things from your life. Clarity brings calm.”- Darius Foroux
7) ”When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”-Kim McMillen
8) ”As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.”-Maya Angelou
9) ”Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is. The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.”-Dan Millman
10) ”This too shall pass.”-Persian Proverb
11) ”Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”-Confucius
12) ”More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.”-Roy T. Bennett
13) ”Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”-Arnold Schwarzenegger
14) ”Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”- Kahlil Gibran
15)”We get such a kick out of looking forward to pleasures and rushing ahead to meet them that we can’t slow down to enjoy them when they come.”-Alan Watts
17) ”There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.”-Alexander Dumas
18) ”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 Bolte Taylor
19) ”You may have a million desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here.”- Zen proverb
20) ”We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.”-Dolly Parton
21) ”Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.”-Tilopa
22) ”To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.”- Michelle Obama
23) ”When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.”-Greg Anderson
24) ”Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”-Louisa May Alcott
25) ”Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace.”-Joan Borysenko
26) ”You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”-Steve Maraboli
27) ”The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy.”- Hermann Hesse
28) ”If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”- Jack Kornfield
29) ”We should always be asking ourselves: “Is this something that is, or is not, in my control?”- Epictetus
30) ”There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.”-Brian Andreas
31) ”Stress and confusion come from being busy. Peace and clarity come from slowing down and stilling your waters.”- Maxime Lagacé
32) ”Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”- Anne Lamott
33) ”90% of what you’re stressing about right now won’t even matter a year from now. Take a deep breath.”-Mel Robbins
34) ”When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”- Jean Shinoda Bolen
35) ”Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.”- Brené Brown
36) ”When you have a moment, just listen to the beauty of silence. It has so much to say.”-Armin Ganguly
37) ”Every once in a while, do you just like to take your time with what you’re doing?”-Fred Rogers
38) ”Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
39) ”There is more to life than increasing its speed.”- Mahatma Gandhi
40) ”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
41) ”Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”-Robert Eliot
42) ”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
43) ”When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.”-Peter Marshall
44) ”How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.”-Spanish proverb
45) ”Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”-Benjamin Franklin
46) ”Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”- Henry Ward Beecher
47) ”Don’t spin your wheels trying to get everything done. Focus on getting the right things done instead.”-Greg McKeown
48) ”Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.”-Carrie-Anne Moss
49) ”If you feel lost… sit down, close your eyes, breathe, put your hands on your heart, repeat forever.”-Courtney Carver
50) ”Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.”- Edward Stanley
51) ”Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”-Eleanor Brownn
52) ”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
53) ”Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear – are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.”-Eckhart Tolle
54) ”If you feel “burnout” setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.”- Dalai Lama
55) ”If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”- Dean Smith
56) ”If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.”- Doug Larson
57) ”A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”-Aesop
58) ”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
59) ”The truth is that stress doesn’t come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.”- Andrew Bernstein
60) ”Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”-Thich Nhat Hanh
61) ”Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”- Hans Selye
62) ”That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”-Chinese Proverb
63) ”Just when you feel you have no time to relax, know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.”-Matt Haig
64) ”Give your stress wings and let it fly away.”-Terri Guillemets
65) ”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
66) ”Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”-Chinese proverb
67) ”In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
68) ”People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”- George Bernard Shaw
69) ”If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
70) ”Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.”- Renee Jain
71) ”If the problem can be solved, why worry? If the problem cannot be solved, worrying will do you no good.”-Buddha
72) ”Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers every day without forcing their buds.”- Osho
73) ”Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”- Oprah Winfrey
74) ”These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”-Najwa Zebian
75) ”If the problem can be solved why worry? If the problem cannot be solved then worrying will do you no good.”-Shantideva
76) ”Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”- Hermann Hesse
77) ”The day she let go of the things that were weighing her down, was the day she began to shine the brightest.”- Katrina Mayer
78) ”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 Bernstein
79) ”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
80) ”It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”- Lou Holtz
81) ”Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it.”-Brian Tracy
82) ”Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”- Leo F. Buscaglia
83) ”We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”-David Mamet
84) ”Breath is the power behind all things…. I breathe in and know that good things will happen.”-Tao Porchon-Lynch
85) ”Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”-Nelson DeMille
86)”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
87) ”Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”-Hans Selye
88) ”The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”-Elbert Hubbard
89) ”Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.”-Eckhart Tolle
90) ”Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”-Ovid
91) ”It’s a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.”-Paulo Coelho
92) ”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
93) ”The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”- William James
94) ”It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.”- Bruce Lee
95) ”The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”-Sydney J. Harris
96) ”One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”-Viggo Mortensen
97)”Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.”- David Allen
98) ”The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”-William James
99) ”In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”-Albert Einstein
100) ”God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.”-Kelly Clarkson
101) ”Your mindset matters. It affects everything – from the business and investment decisions you make, to the way you raise your children, to your stress levels and overall well-being.”-Peter Diamandis
102) ”Stress is caused by being ‘here’ but wanting to be ‘there.”-Eckhart Tolle
