Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
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.
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
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.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.
Live with the objective of being happy.
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