- There are three things you cannot buy. Fitness: You have to keep fit, whether you’re rich or not. Diet: You cannot pay someone to be on a diet for you. Then, looking after your soul. No one can possibly treat your soul but you yourself. Brunello Cucinelli
- “What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- Most of the time, life isn’t an emergency. Much of the time, things will be fine. Save the rush for when it is needed. Thibaut
- “The human mind is an open-source network of many complex softwares working together.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantras
- How do you beat your inner turmoil? You can’t beat it, you can only stop creating it. Thibaut
- “Live a good life. More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” ― Roy Bennett
- “Tonight is going to be a big night, like any other night, because certain 10 million Americans will not be able to sleep well tonight.” ― Pawan Mishra
- “Our faster than ever evolution has resulted in our undermining certain incredibly important aspects of humanity—like our sleep.” ― Pawan Mishra
- Stress is not created by the events in your life, but by your reaction to them. James Pierce
- “Meditation is massage for the mind.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Let’s imagine a running washing machine. Let’s imagine the dirty clothes in the machine and how the liquid detergent is getting the dirt out of clothes and draining it to the waste outlet. Now imagine brain surrounded by a large pool of cleaning fluid called CSF (cerebrospinal fluid). Imagine CSF pulling the wastes from inside the brain and draining it into the blood, which routes it to the waste outlets. CSF clears waste many times faster in sleeping brain than in the waking brain.” ― Pawan Mishra
- If you feel lost… sit down, close your eyes, breathe, put your hands on your heart, repeat forever. Courtney Carver
- “We need some fear to optimize our performance. We need some stress, or we become apathetic. We need some apprehension to keep us humble. We need to question our confidence to drive our determination. Lastly, we need our ego, or we won’t dare to try.” ― Suzanne F. Stevens, Make your contribution count for you, me, we: An evolutionary journey inspired by the wisdom of pioneering African women
- “Don’t be afraid to live life. There is grace for the living.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- Today I refuse to stress myself out about things I cannot control or change. Mel Robbins
- Renew yourself completely every day; do it again, and again, and forever again. Zen proverb
- “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
- “If the mind can cause stress, the mind can alleviate it. It’s within our power to choose one thought over another — to choose optimism over pessimism.” ― Ernest Cadorin, The Arrows of Zen
- “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
- Never make a decision when you are stressed, depressed, or being caressed. Thibaut
- “The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- This world is all attachment. Yet you get worried because you are attached. Neem Karoli Baba
- To discover and transcend craving, which is the deep cause of all conditioning, is arduous and demands constant awareness. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Try staying awake for 24 hours and you’ll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.” ― Joyce Rachelle
- “Self-care is how you take your power back.” ― Lalah Delia
- “What is wrong, and heartbreakingly foolish and wonderfully avoidable, is to live a life with more craziness than we want because we have less Jesus than we need.” ― Kevin DeYoung, Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem
- Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life. Andrew J. Bernstein
- No desires, no goal, no seeking, no thoughts, neither obtaining, nor rejecting, nor grasping, nor letting go, being free. Taisen Deshimaru
- “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
- “Recovery through sleep isn’t going to happen if the majority of the components of your being aren’t getting enough stimulation or resistance to work against. Your brain may be tired after work, but if your body and emotions haven’t been challenged through the day, they’re going to keep irritating you even if you’re asleep. They don’t need rest; they need work for real recovery to take place.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re: