#stress

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#hand #maiden #mistress #poor #riches

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days. ↗

— Evan Daugherty

#days #down #insanity #leading #me

I'm trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it's not just them at war - it's also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses. ↗

— Chris Kyle

#awareness #deploy #family #go #hardships

Truth flows from universal law, not personal views. ↗

— John Agno

#boomer-retirement #leadership-books #leadership-tips #life-signature #stress-management

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#love #others #ourselves #pain #problems

Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because 'romantic' doesn't mean 'sugary.' It's dark and tormented — the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can't attain. ↗

— Catherine Breillat

#the-last-mistress #romantic

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode. ↗

— Fiona Wood

#stress #stress

Then she would be done with J. D. Jameson forever. No more having to prove herself; no more of those pesky jitters she felt whenever she saw him at work—something like butterflies in her stomach, it was actually quite annoying; no more stress; no more fights in the library; and definitely no more sexy I’m-gonna-kiss-you-now-woman blue-eyed heated gazes. She had no idea why she just thought that. ↗

— Julie James

#stress

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you’ll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes. ↗

— Holly Mosier

#mindfulness #opt-out #peace-of-mind #present-moment #purpose