- “Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishes us in every sense.” ― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath – Beautify your Life
- Don’t think about the past. Just be here now. Don’t think about the future. Just be here now. Ram Dass
- “The human mind is an open-source network of many complex softwares working together.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness. Richard Carlson
- Don’t spin your wheels trying to get everything done. Focus on getting the right things done instead. Greg McKeown
- “The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- Observe a stressful thought. Notice how your shoulders tense, your stomach tightens, you hold your breath. Keep watching that same thought. Don’t push it away, instead change your reaction to it. Breathe deeply, let go, relax your body. You’re okay. It’s just a thought. Breathe. Jason Garner
- Awareness is inherently pure like the empty sky. Stress, annoyance, and anger can temporarily occupy its space but can never pollute it. Haemin Sunim
- “Do not waste your life over working.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Negative thoughts are the causes of all depression and all stress.Be positive; never infect your mind with negative thoughts.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.” ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- “I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people’s business, and God’s business.” ― Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
- “Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.” ― Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
- “You can be angry that someone did not flush the toilet, or be glad that they have relieved themselves into it.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy. Hermann Hesse
- “During the time of stress, the “fight-or-flight” response is on and the self-repair mechanism is disabled. It is then when we say that the immunity of the body goes down and the body is exposed to the risk for disease. Meditation activates relaxation, when the sympathetic nervous system is turned off and the parasympathetic nervous system is turned on, and natural healing starts.” ― Annie Wilson, Effect of Meditation on Cardiovascular Health, Immunity & Brain Fitness
- Sometimes it’s better to react with no reaction. Unknown
- When you have a moment, just listen to the beauty of silence. It has so much to say. Armin Ganguly
- A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. Albert Einstein
- Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self. Buddha
- “Sometimes we spent so much time worrying future but many times what we worry about does not even happen, thus all the worry goes in vain.” ― Tonmoy Acharjee
- “The Sleep Problem today is not as much about being able to sleep for 7 hours; it is more about being able to sleep when you are ready to.” ― Pawan Mishra
- When you feel overwhelmed, start eliminating all the non-essential things from your life. Clarity brings calm. Darius Foroux
- People think peace is positivity, but it’s not. Peace has no opposite, it is a kind of prevailing stillness that is present even in the midst of chaos. Don’t seek positivity. Don’t seek negativity. Accept what is there and find your peace regardless. Thibaut
- “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ― David Mamet, Boston Marriage
- “It’s easy for a preacher to say ‘Let Go’. Imagine a king who wants to let go of his power because it’s giving him nothing but stress and anxiety. If he lets go of it, his enemies will kill him. He has to first let go of his own body-mind. Then right circumstances will form and his body-mind will be able let go of power safely.You have to let go of things spiritually before you can let go of them physically.” ― Shunya
- The calm person makes a choice. The angry person finds that anger has chosen for them. Rage robs us of reason and makes us puppets of our lower instincts. @TheStoicEmperor
- “I wish…I wish I were dead…”“And what use would that be to anyone?” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Antifragile, Amazon book)