#stress

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#stress #stress

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise. ↗

— Chris Baty

#rough-drafts #simile #writing #stress

A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint ↗

— Amy Efaw

#self-harm #stress #stress

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#women #stress

Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#stress

We are all tired of the stress. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#stress #trials #faith

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#be happy #choice #choose #going #happiness

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#because #big #big problems #brahms #distressing

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time. ↗

— Cher

#back #because #constantly #go #i

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#embark #euro #good #keen #kingdom