One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Stress
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 should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.
-William Nathaniel "Bill" Phillips
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
-Margaret Fuller
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"
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.
-Natalie Goldberg
"Wild Mind:Living the Writer’s Life"
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
