Answer:
1. “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
2. “Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.”
3. “Calmness is the cradle of power.”
4. “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.”
5. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
6. “Stress acts as an accelerator: it will push you either forward or backward, but you choose which direction.”
7. “It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.”
8. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
9. “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.”
10. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
11. “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.”
12. “Mental health awareness doesn’t mean fighting stress, anxiety, depression and other everyday mental health issues, rather it means consciously modulating the habits that intensify those issues. Once you are in control of your habits, instead of checking your habits, you would automatically be in a much better shape, both mentally and physically. ”
13. “A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
14. “It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.”
15. “My key to dealing with stress is simple: just stay cool and stay focused.”
16. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
17. “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.”
18. “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.”
19. “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.”
20. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”
21. “Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.”
22. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
23. “There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.”
26. “There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated.”
25. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
26. “Stress is not what happens to us. It’s our response TO what happens. And RESPONSE is something we can choose.”
27. “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.”
28. “Don’t believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.”
29. “These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.”
30. “Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.”