“If you try to leave your old self behind, she will find you and haunt you.”— Heather Havrilesky, thecut.com
“Saying no is a challenge for any professional: you don’t want to disappoint people, and any given opportunity may lead to positive outcomes.”— Dorie Clark, hbr.org
“As it’s the darling du jour of the Silicon Valley set, Ehrenreich asks us to consider how suspect it is that that the same people who brought us the devices that stress us out are also peddling $10 a month guided meditations to counterbalance it.”— Deanna Pai, thecut.com
“Kennedy wasn't under as much pressure as I am.”— Brian Koppelman, David Levien, Bobby "Axe" Axelrod, Damian Lewis, imdb.com
“The garden variety family annihilator is usually a narcissistic male patriarch experiencing psychological stress. This causes him to become homicidal and then suicidal.”— Stephanie Sengupta, Emily Prentiss, Paget Brewster, imdb.com
“In periods of stress and grief, not only does your mind do funny things, you say things that surprise you.”— Phil Knight, addicted2success.com
“One of the quickest, and most effective, ways of reducing our stress is the practice of healthy non-attachment to outcomes — the idea that not getting what I want, in the ways that I want it, is not the end of the world.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“Anything could go wrong any day of the week. What’s the point of worrying in advance?”— Judy Blume, amazon.com
“If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”— Khalil Gibran, goodreads.com
“It's hard to not worry, because trying not to worry reminds me that I should be worried.”— Matthew Green, amazon.com
“She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness a…”— Eckhart Tolle, amazon.com