I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.

 —Jennifer Yane

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

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

—Richard Carlson

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

 —Frederick Saunders

Stress: The confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk to desperately deserves it.

 —anonymous

Stress is a dis-ease involving the whole personality.

 —Arthur Young

For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.                     —Lily Tomlin

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 what color to slide down on the rainbow.

 —Douglas Pagels

A poor life this, if full of care / We have no time to stand and stare.

 —William Henry Davies

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

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

 —Jerome K. Jerome

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

 —Will Rogers

God made time, but man made haste.

 —Irish Proverb

Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

 —Lao Tzu