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When the time is right, you might right, you might consider telling Theo that you’ve been in love with him for a long time now.” Lucy sniffed. “And I’m supposed to do this without Milk Duds? As if!” Doris laughed. “You know, being true to yourself takes courage, Lucy. Great joy always requires great risk, and even effort.” “Yeah. OK. But I’ve always been more of a drive-through person.
— Donovan Susan
Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive – she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated falling in love with Ken for lack of anything better to do.
— Francine Pascal, Brokenhearted
I loved you before I even knew the name for it. Everyday I'd sit beside you, inhaling your scent, looking at your beautiful face. Every night, dreaming about you. You eclipsed everything else. It was you. Always you.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
— Catherine Anderson, Phantom Waltz
Don't you understand? I want to spend my life with you. I want you to be there when I go to bed at night and when I wake up in the morning.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
it’s a terrible feeling when you first fall in love. your mind gets completely taken over, you can’t function properly anymore. the world turns into a dream place, nothing seems real. you forget your keys, no one seems to be talking English and even if they are you don’t care as you can’t hear what they’re saying anyway, and it doesn’t matter since your not really there. things you cared about before don’t seem to matter anymore and things you didn’t think you cared about suddenly do. I must become a brilliant cook, I don’t want to waste time seeing my friends when I could be with him, I feel no sympathy for all those people in India killed by an earthquake last night; what is the matter with me? It’s a kind of hell, but you feel like your in heaven.even your body goes out of control, you can’t eat, you don’t sleep properly, your legs turn to jelly as your not sure where the floor is anymore. you have butterflies permanently, not only in your tummy but all over your body - your hands, your shoulders, your chest, your eyes everything’s just a jangling mess of nerve endings tingling with fire. it makes you feel so alive. and yet its like being suffocated, you don’t seem to be able to see or hear anything real anymore, its like people are speaking to you through treacle, and so you stay in your cosy place with him, the place that only you two understand. occasionally your forced to come up for air by your biggest enemy, Real Life, so you do the minimum then head back down under your love blanket for more, knowing it’s uncomfortable but compulsory.and then, once you think you’ve got him, the panic sets in. what if he goes off me? what if I blow it, say the wrong thing? what if he meets someone better than me? Prettier, thinner, funnier, more like him? who doesn’t bite there nails? perhaps he doesn’t feel the same, maybe this is all in my head and this is just a quick fling for him. why did I tell him that stupid story about not owning up that I knew who spilt the ink on the teachers bag and so everyone was punished for it? does he think I'm a liar? what if I'm not very good at that blow job thing and he’s just being patient with me? he says he loves me; yes, well, we can all say words, can’t we? perhaps he’s just being polite.of course you do your best to keep all this to yourself, you don’t want him to think you're a neurotic nutcase, but now when he’s away doing Real Life it’s agony, your mind won’t leave you alone, it tortures you and examines your every moment spent together, pointing out how stupid you’ve been to allow yourself to get this carried away, how insane you are to imagine someone would feel like that about you. dad did his best to reassure me, but nothing he said made a difference - it was like I wanted to see Simon, but didn’t want him to see me.
— Annabel Giles, Birthday Girls
He pulled me closer until his lips breathed me in, until we were sharing one breath.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
It means that two people start loving each other. I guess because it can feel really sudden and because it's powerful. Like gravity--an unstoppable force.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Glitter Baby
He looked up and I realised how close we were, both of us leaning in together. I blinked a few times, suddenly light-headed, but not like before when I'd passed out. Being so close to the smooth dark skin of his face, getting lost in the shifting shades of his green eyes, it felt like my insides were fluttering and melting.
— Heather Anastasiu, Glitch
We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet.
— Darnell Lamont Walker, Creep
One day we fall in love with the one who makes us live intensely and laugh hard and heavy. And as hard as we love them, their friend loves us back equally and we just can’t be.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Hon, falling in love is easy. Staying in love is the tough part." ~Faith Barnett from Texas Tangle
— Leah Braemel
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
— Anaïs Nin
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
— Ellen Glasgow
Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say."This sounded promising, certainly. Alice turned and came back again."Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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, Six Impossible Things
I am not "cured"--I know I never will be. I will always crave that pain to keep me centered. I will always be just a little astounded when I get through a crisis without putting a blade to my flesh.
— J. Kenner, Complete Me
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, After
Stress is the trash of modern life-we all generate it but if you don't dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.
— Danzae Pace
The storm before the calm.
— Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
— Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
A combination of fine tea, enchanting objects and soothing surroundings exerts a therapeutic effect by washing away the corrosive strains and stress of modern life. [... It] induces a modd that is spiritually refreshing [and produces] a genial state of mind.
— John Blofeld, Chinese Art of Tea
Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
There is no such thing as a stress-free life. No evidence has ever been presented which suggests that a stress-free life can ever be achieved. Stress can be managed, relieved and lessened, but never eliminated.
— Gudjon Bergmann
I am not against drinking, but drink to celebrate not to remove stress! Be in integrity with the word ‘cheers!!!!
— Harrish Sairaman
Stress is a natural and normal part of being alive. Stress-free promises set people up for failure. Even when used with good intentions and accompanied by relevant and beneficial ideas and practices, the use of the words stress-free is still ill advised because the approach is infused with an erroneous idea that will never come to fruition. The stress-free idea has become a significant hurdle on the path to real stress management, which is the balance between using stress productively and relieving harmful stress symptoms.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Stress-free moments certainly exist, but that is the extent of it. People, who have bought into the idea of a stress-free life, believe they should be happy and positive all the time. They have been sold a damaging falsehood. As the first sentence in M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Travelled famously said: “Life is difficult.” Learning to deal effectively with life’s difficulties, learning to manage the inevitable stress of life is attainable, while eliminating stress is not.
— Gudjon Bergmann
Stress is just for those who have not yet tried and trusted in God. -178
— Ahmad Fuadi, Negeri 5 Menara
In short, you do not have to take the job that will create excessive stress and overarousal. Someone else will take it and flourish in it. You do not have to work long hours. Indeed, it may be your duty to work shorter ones. It may not be best to advertise it, but keeping yourself healthy and in your right range of arousal is the first condition for helping others.
— Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is consequential because frequent release of cortisol can lead to heart disease, diabetes, dementia, cancer, and depression.
— Dan Harris, 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works
As you become aware of life, you will begin to see the root cause to all your actions and reactions. Then you will realize that you are not angry with the child because he made a mistake, but because you get pleasure out of being angry. The mistake was only a excuse.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
Evolution has geared the human stress response to last about thirty seconds. It's enough time to facilitate fight or flight. Evolution has not adapted our brains or bodies to handle weeks or months of prolonged stress.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
Positive emotions and mental states may make people more resilient to stress, like sturdy tree branches that bend but don’t break when battered by a storm
— Melanie Greenberg, The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
I admit. I confess. I confront. The three likely phrase to live stressless.
— Bhavik Sarkhedi, The Weak Point Dealer
And here I am sitting again, yes, sitting again by this faithful lamp, feeling indescribably serene and unhurried. I shall travel this day's path quite calmly and just take a little holiday—my eyes and head are slightly overstressed and overstrained. One must have the patience to do a little less.
— –Etty Hillesum
By observing your judging mind, you can avoid automatically buying into these negative judgments...This transforms your experience of stress by taking the terror and panic out of it.
— Melanie Greenberg, The Stress-Proof Brain: Master Your Emotional Response to Stress Using Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity
Stress itself is not what’s toxic. It’s our relationship to it that's the hazard.
— Lisa Cypers Kamen, Are We Happy Yet?: Eight Keys to Unlocking a Joyful Life
The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.
— Nigel Cumberland, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living
It's not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school; it's something we collectively force one another to do.
— Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing
Life is a constant build up and release of tension. If we go too far in either direction bad things happen.
— Chris Matakas, The Tao of Jiu Jitsu
Oftentimes we feel like we can't say no, but YOU'LL LOWER YOUR STRESS BY NOT SAYING YES all of the time.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Hot water makes stress, makes you embarrassed… cold makes you to refresh, calm, relax… but mainly dead people are cold and the alive are hotter.
— Deyth Banger
Stress and sleep deprivation had a funny way of liberating the mind from previously held truisms, replacing them with a more compliant desperation.
— David Z. Hirsch, Didn't Get Frazzled
Stress is being responsible for things that you have no control over.
— R.A.Delmonico
The biggest problem is that stress is above my life, as much I have more stress as more masturbate commmands me. I see it's pointless, it loses time, it's useless and so on and so on... but some how it's difficult to stop it!
— Deyth Banger
It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.
— Hans Seyle
When stress is the problem, slack is the solution.
— Tom DeMarco, Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Then I resolved that I would go back out there and somehow cope with the situation, despite the fact that I lacked a strategy and was frightened to the pit of my being.
— William Styron, Sophie's Choice
In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.
— Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Mr. Quin
... When you're living like that, I think time can seem to stretch out for ever. Matters only change when you start fretting about all the things you need to get done. The more stuff you try to force into it, the less accommodating time becomes.
— Gavin Extence, The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Stressed by any other name is fear.
— Shannon L. Alder
Stress kills when you fuel the initial reaction with negative thoughts, aggressive behavior, belief and trust in the uncomfortable physical and emotional symptoms it causes. Don’t fuel it, and watch how fast stress disappears.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The stressful life leads to neglect of spirituality and wellness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Overwork can cause a break down.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Americans are so tightly wound, the way they kill themselves to get ahead. It's no way to live, I tell you.
— Shilpi Somaya Gowda, The Golden Son: A Novel
Stress is nothing but the fear of change.
— Debasish Mridha
No one ever wants to hear about how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't a conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Women are wired to take on others’ needs. Own your role in stress, establishing boundaries on what you can reasonably accomplish within your current bandwidth and reduce your stress load.
— Sara Gottfried, The Hormone Reset Diet: Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days
When we don’t fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.
— Debasish Mridha
I can't prevent storms from coming, but I can decide not to invent my own.
— Emily P. Freeman, Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste in my mouth, a permanent sense of nausea that exhausted me, as if everything, thus compacted, and always tighter, were grinding me up, reducing me to a repulsive cream.
— Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend
Being under pressure is great, if it's all in the right place.
— Benny Bellamacina, Piddly Poems for Children
You may say you're "anti-status," but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.
— Loretta Graziano Breuning, I, Mammal: Why Your Brain Links Status and Happiness
If you would know these demands of life, you would gain a quicker success, at a greater pace, with less stress than otherwise.
— Sunday Adelaja
The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.
— Robert J. Wicks, Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being
All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night.
— Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man
Stop – Unplug – Escape – Enjoy.’ This is the message of the Priory, and the key to enjoying a peaceful and rewarding life.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
I could not undo overnight the damage that had been done to my psyche over many years. The only way over was through-I knew that_ but it was still debilitating and stressful. All I could do was face the fear and keep going.
— Carolyn Jessop
It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
Even the loveliest shoulders can bear but so much.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Look what pressure(cooker) does to Rice. It makes the hard and tough rice go soft.
— gaurav rao
The speed of modern life is an oppressive thing, and the corporate world is quick to punish those with an honest heart.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
The Top 4 Causes of Medical Problems: stress,negative mindset,poor diet, sedentary lifestyle.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
If you decide to focus on one thing at a time, instead of trying to solve everything at once, and just do that one thing, then you will feel a sudden decrease in stress.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress
Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.
No pressure in this life will be too much where our Lord cannot help you. If you feel tired and worn out constantly it is because you have been weary walking in the desert without the refreshing streams of prayer and abiding with the Lord.
— Greg  Gordon
One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn’t true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress
I don’t think you’re going to start a riot, but until you prove you have more survival instincts than a seriously stressed out lemming, you’ll stay at the bar.
— Kim Dare, Axel's Pup
Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.
— Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions
The worst possible approach to a problem is waiting until it becomes overwhelming or irreversible, and that is exactly what many people do. They put dealing with stress on the backburner until they start to experience all the worst symptoms of stress, and by then, it may be too late!
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress
The pattern of your breathing affects the pattern of your performance. When you are under stress, deep breathing helps bring your mind and body back into the present.Over the years I have handed out thousands of little stickers to athletes that read ‘Breathe and Focus.’ A baseball player will place the bright orange circle on the shoulder of his uniform or underneath the bill of his cap, or on the barrel of his bat. A hockey player might affix it to his stick. Firefighters I have worked with place the stickers on their self-contained breathing apparatus. The stickers serve as a reminder. Whenever they feel themselves growing anxious, breathe in energy. Breathe out negativity. Breathe in relaxation. Breathe out stress.
— Gary Mack
There are no stressful jobs, but there are stressful managers
— علي الماجد
Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking.
— Auliq Ice
If you have ever procrastinated and then found yourself energized to complete a task at the last minute, then you have used the beneficial aspect of the fight or flight response (not the procrastinating part, but the energizing part). You see, with all its negative long term effects, the fight or flight response still gives us energy, and if we know how to use that energy, then stress is potentially good, at least in the short term.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress
Habits equal autopilot. Take brushing your teeth for example. Once that becomes a habit, you don’t have to write positive affirmations or remind yourself constantly to brush your teeth. It is simply a habitual part of what you do every day. That is why I emphasize the five habits of stress management, not the five rules or the five goals. If you make these five habits an essential part of your life, then you will be able to manage stress effectively.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management
Everyone knows that a quick-fix usually doesn’t work, yet we have all been sold on the idea time and time again. Most of us would like to believe in miracle drugs and fast relief. The truth is that most of the quick fixes for stress focus on temporary relief from tension or pain. Temporary, as in, the problem will return with a vengeance. This doesn’t mean we should never take drugs to alleviate tension or pain, it just means that taking drugs is not a viable permanent solution; it’s just a temporary relief.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress: Regain Control of Your Life Using the Five Habits of Effective Stress Management
Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.
— Matt Ridley, Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Be aware of the abundance of life right now. If you remain stuck in the past, clinging to the baggage of old disappointments or relationships, you block yourself off from the riches of the present. If you worry too much about tomorrow, you can't hear your heart today.
— Baptist de Pape, The Power Of The Heart: Finding Your True Purpose
I had entered a world that no one with an evolved sense of joie de vivre would touch with a barge pole - it's called "Joining the Property Market" and it trumps war for stress!
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.
— Mindy Kaling
Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people
— Gatot Soedarto
It's called joining the property market - and it shits on war for stress
— Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory
A mind that is racing over worries about the future or recycling resentments from the past is ill equipped to handle the challenges of the moment. By slowing down, we can train the mind to focus completely in the present. Then we will find that we can function well whatever the difficulties. That is what it means to be stress-proof: not avoiding stress but being at our best under pressure, calm, cool, and creative in the midst of the storm.
— Eknath Easwaran, Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down
In a nutshell: Stress is stress - no matter whether it's from exercise or from lifestyle - and the more stress you're placing on yourself from your lifestyle, the less stress you'll be able to place on yourself from exercise.
— Ben Greenfield, Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health  Life
Most of the time our stress is useless. It's because we don't see the outcome of things. God does.
— Amanda Penland
Sometimes a pad on the back or just a simple word of comfort is all that it takes to bring someone under heavy stress back to balance.
— J.A. Perez
Don’t cluster too much plans to do within a relatively minimum time. As beginner, you must not cut your coat according to your elder brother’s size. Know your limit.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The Power of Relaxation is the lessening effect of stress. To achieve this we need to have the perfect platform to catalytically reach the summit of inner peace where we are at concord with our self, our friends and The Universe.
— Anthony Pan
I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline — a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample — that fear may be intense.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.
— Anthony Liccione
If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.
— Chris Baty, No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days
At some point, I finally realized that stress made a really bad companion... so I had it pack its shit and leave.
— Steve Maraboli
What's pretty important, and least was for me, (related an exceptionally good pinch-hitter on the pressures involved with failing with so much at stake) you can't be afraid to enjoy the moment.
— Tim Wendel, Summer of '68: The Season That Changed Baseball—and America—Forever
There is no social stigma attached to the frenzy, no peer motivation to slow us down. Rather it is the opposite; busy is popular currency, traded among members of modern society like a precious commodity. Busy is the silkiest cloth at the emporium, the most well-travelled spice. Living with a full schedule speedily typed into a pinging, vibrating device is a highly valued state of being. And, as with any addiction, it becomes self-perpetuating. We feel a rush from being in a rush; we take pride in the breakneck pace at which we travel through our days.
— Gillian Deacon, Naked Imperfection: A Memoir
It is our reaction that creates stress and this we can change"This book will start you on a journey that will give you the ability to handleany difficult customer with ease. In order to feel no stress we all have to go through many instances of being stressed, so we can learn one step at a time to be free of it.
— Keith H. Maitland, Difficult Customer- No Stress
It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.
— Matt Haig, The Humans
Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.
— Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
It wasn't a lack of attraction to her husband that caused her problems. It was life. It was traffic. It was the Miami Dade Water and Sewer bills, it was trying to get ahead, and trying to be on time. Petty little thing, but zillions of them fused together.
— Heather Graham, A Magical Christmas
Behind every stressful thought is the desire for things to be other than they are.
— Toni Bernhard, How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
Is it possible that the reason you feel as if God doesn't see you or your problems or care about your stress is because you are focused on you, instead of God?
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
— Michael Gruber, The Good Son
It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.
— Wayde Goodall
Worrying is like a dominoes effect, that rolls from one day into the next, into a week, a month, a year;never accomplishing anything but stress, until it hits that last tile, which drops unfulfilled to an empty ground.
— Anthony Liccione
I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.
— Emilie and Stephanie
In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
— Brian Herbert, House Atreides
Most emotional and physical symptoms of stress and depression are not typically caused by the circumstances themselves, but instead by how our minds perceive what is going on and how our hearts hold up under the pressure.
— Tracie Miles, Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World
[D]espite her alternative leanings, it turned out Crystal was not particularly psyco-babbly or airy-fairy or tree-huggy, as one might have expected.In fact, the first thing she did was write a list. She said writing lists helped calm her down when she was stressed about anything because it put problems in order. You can look at a list of things and see how you can tackle each one separately without feeling sick about it, she said. Whereas if they all just stayed jumbled in your mind in one great bit sticky ball you never got to consider them individually. She actually spoke a lot of sense for someone with toe rings and a Chinese tattoo.
— Sarah-Kate Lynch, On Top of Everything
Our whole family thrives under pressure. It's like our family motto or something.Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous break down. But the rest of us.
— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
Your job is obviously very pressured.""I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.
— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess
Gail loved to talk about how stressed she was. She would do this thing where we'd be walking in the hallway, and suddenly she'd stop in her tracks, rub both of her temples with her index and middle fingers, and theatrically let out a deep guttural moan: "Mooooog.""Mooog. Minz. I am just so stressed out," she'd say. "I just want to go home, open a bottle of red wine, draw up a hot bath, light some candles and listen to David Gray." A note about me: I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, "Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
What could a fool be thinking but further foolishness?
— Silvia Hartmann, The Cage
Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse. 
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
It's always nice being fancied. It's always nice being wanted. Even it it's by the wrong person.
— Tabitha Suzuma, Forbidden
Oh, God, Francesca,Now there’s a good one.Why?Why? Why?” He gave each one a different tenor, as if he were testing out the word, asking it todifferent people.“Why?” he asked again, this time with increased volumeas he turned around to face her.“Why? It’sbecause I love you, damn me to hell. Because I’ve always loved you. Because I loved you when youwere with John, and I loved you when I was in India, and God only knows I don’t deserve you, but Ilove you, anyway.”Francesca sagged against the door.“How’s that for a witty little joke?” he mocked. “I loveyou. I loveyou, my cousin’s wife. I loveyou, theone woman I can never have. I loveyou, Francesca Bridger-ton Stirling.
— Julia Quinn, When He Was Wicked
I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.
— Melissa de la Cruz, Bloody Valentine
The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness
— Paulo Coelho
That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. -(Linc Blaise)
— Jennifer Crusie, The Cinderella Deal
There are times when a lover longs to be also a father and a brother: he is jealous of the years he hasn't shared.
— Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.
— J.R. Ward
Every lover is a soldier.
— Ovid, Amores
My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch.....Laura Acosta
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Fatigue Artist
The completion is always more difficult that the beginning
— Paulo Coelho
I highly doubt anyone would see anything,” he said, replying to my thoughts. “We’re on the 30th floor. Stop procrastinating; take off your fucking clothes.
— Lilly Wilde, Touched
I have never wanted a lover. In order to have a lover, I must go back to the root of the word. For I have never wanted a lover, but I have always wanted to love, and to be loved.
— David Levithan
I was a talking lover, which most women hate.
— Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
Angus was courting me with lines that stabbed deep in lonely, barren places. Like an unfair conqueror, he was delivering his words with an accent that had me dreaming of castles and lochs, and strong thighs under a rough kilt.
— Cheryl R Cowtan, Girl Desecrated: The Fergus She 1984
Once you’ve gotten used to a certain kind of smell from a certain kind of flesh, whether it’s a lover or a rotting corpse, you long for it when it’s not around. Or maybe it’s just me.
— David Burr Gerrard, Short Century: A Novel
fighting for transformational change does not require violence it requires one attitude called LOVE
— Chief-Icons Rashid Bawah
The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings
i always get myselfinto this messi always let himtell me i am beautifuland half believe iti always jump thinkinghe will catch me at the falli am hopelessly a lover anda dreamer and that will bethe death of me
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
You darling is my semicolon.
— Waseem Latif
I believed all Angels had wings, that they never cried, that I would live a lifetimes and never see one up close, never know the glow of such skin, or know how intoxicating the feel of her soft lips pressing hard against mine, or how beautiful was a simple touch, and then you walked into my life and made me wonder why I had wasted so much time thinking about Angels.
— Tonny K. Brown
The softest emotions of the heart are the hardest to control.- Not First Love
— Jennifer Lawrence
I loved watching her run around. I was in love with the innocence of dogs, the purity of their affection. They didn’t know enough to hide their feelings. They existed. A dog was a dog.
— Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
There is none more beautiful than the lover of beauty.
— Raheel Farooq
Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.
— Elizabeth von Arnim, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
Lovers die inward that their flames conceal.
— John Webster, The White Devil
He gave me a message for you.” She tightened her lips as if the words soured her mouth.“What is it?”“That you are in his blood.”I looked down at the deck to hide the answering surge within my own blood.“Those are the words of a lover, Eona.
— Alison Goodman, Eona: The Last Dragoneye
It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, not infrequently, his own; feeling that, since Odette had had every facility for seeing him, she seemed no longer to have very much to say to him when they did meet, he was afraid lest the manner - at once trivial, monotonous, and seemingly unalterable - which she now adopted when they were together should ultimately destroy in him that romantic hope, that a day might come when she would make avowal of her passion, by which hope alone he had become and would remain her lover.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Lover of love. I adore love letters, and professions of love, and true, heartfelt moments when two people know they’re meant for each other.
— Lauren Blakely, 21 Stolen Kisses
Although we shared a kiss or two you still have me on cloud nine from time to time and all I want is for you to be mine!
— La'Star T
Let’s get you one, Anna.”“A lover?”Edith rolled her eyes. “No. A fucking houseplant. Yes, a lover.” Edith smirked. “It’ll cheer you up!
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
He'll burn the world for her
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin
A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.
— Debasish Mridha
We speak by the mouth 
—  lovers by the lips. (Nous parlons par la bouche
Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It’s all greedy yearning.
— Sarah Noffke, Stunned
His muscles flexed as he stood, and Rosa couldn’t prevent herself from watching with veiled admiration. He was certainly a very beautiful man. She looked away in embarrassment, worried she might say or do something inappropriate.
— Emily Arden, Lover by Moonlight: Deception: Book One
His love is good I can not compare it to anything
— blasio kajuna
Tuning must come first. Each recital begins with a careful tightening of the pegs on the cross-bar, twisting them in their socket of red threads as each string is plucked and tested. He uses his thumb for this, softer and subtler than the plectrum, his head bent to the vibrating string and his lips slightly open, breathing quickly, as over the body of a lover.
— Ann Wroe, Orpheus: The Song of Life
She took no pleasure in knowing…whatever he asked of her, she would do.
— Joy Marino, Who Can Find Her?
I just think that 'dating' is an engagement and not 'fun'." Emily says.
— Pet Torres, Tiger's Obsession
It looks like you're mocking me as if I am a girl who still believes in Santa Claus." Emily says.
— Pet Torres, Tiger's Obsession
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
— Luther Burbank
Emily is grateful to this man and gradually she begins to immerse herself into the world of Tiger's obsession.
— Pet Torres, Tiger's Obsession
as i sit here in a chaoticsilence of the roamingocean in mymind, the only think that puts me at ease is the memoryof you staring back atme. you coiled my fears by letting  meinside of the gully of your eyes.
— Zuky rose Leigh
Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.
— Robert   Dubois, The perfect lover's handbook
A wounded lover is more dangerous than a coward army.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Does 'submissive' mean 'baby' in your language, Master Mason? Because I'll have you know ----...."No, but Dominant does mean lover, caretaker, disciplinarian, and whatever else the situation warrants.
— Bianca Sommerland, Game Misconduct
She’s not happy in her marriage. Not unhappy exactly, but not happy. He doesn’t want kids, so that’s nothing to look forward to. Her life is chock-full of quiet tedium. Suddenly, she falls in love. And sure, there’s the excitement of being with her lover, but there’s also the excitement of not being with him. Of waiting and going on with her ordinary life. And all that dullness now becomes part of the drama. Because that’s her cover story. All the dreary anguish and monotony that fills ninety-eight percent of her life is electrified with meaning, since it now serves as the perfect camouflage to hide the two percent of passion. And, yes, she felt guilt and, yes, she felt shame. But those are powerful emotions too, and were all part of the glorious transformation of a featureless bland life into an adventure.
— Phoef Sutton, Fifteen Minutes to Live
The infinite loves of two birds were broken. I and You were the two birds. The strong pillars of faith, trust, hope, conviction and whatever that makes a strong building, the building is obviously known as relations, were now go down. Those pillars lose their strength. They were no more able to balance my and yours’s infinite love..Tamanna breaks down
— Prakhar Srivastav
If you never get your heart broken, you'll never learn to love.
— Dhiren Prajapati
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs
I am not your lover, but a victim of your beauty.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
You must be very proud
—  the whole city crowded with your lovers.
Everyone likes to be loved
—  no one is prepared to love.
Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?
— A. Manette Ansay, Good Things I Wish You
...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
He was presumably a lover. They did things like commanding battalions. And worse!
— Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
Partner struck me as an ugly euphemism. Euphemism in the sense that people don’t like to talk about sex, so they displace it on to some kind of business model. Since I have a distaste for business, I see no appeal to something that sounds like a financial leadership team.
— Barbara Browning, I'm Trying to Reach You
He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness.
— Unknown Author 909
It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in any circumstance. How we learn to activate them without running the risk of lying to ourselves is the key that unlocks the superhuman lying dormant within us.
— David Amerland, The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for.
— Ogwo David Emenike
I'm proud of myself So it's okay if you're ashamed of me.I'm happy with what I've accomplished So it's okay if you're not impressed by me.I've done what many can't So it's okay if you don't believe in me.I love the things I compileSo it's okay if you think I cramp your style.I've done it by myself But I'll help you should you ever call on me.
— Neha Yazmin
What you believe your future holds for you impacts your attitude, decisions and success.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
The first and most important step to being more creative is to believe you are a creative person!
— Stephen Richards, Six Figure Success: Time To Think Big - You Can Do It
The logical mind creates fears based on past experiences and predicts a negative future, but the Universe is unpredictable. Therefore, your future can be hundred times better than your past. Either have faith or listen to your fears. Both cannot exist together!
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Self-critical thoughts and detrimental predictions about yourself have a huge impact on our mood/feelings. It affects our attitude, decisions and behavior. They ensure our self-esteem stays low and can create physical illnesses.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Writing is a leap of faith. But how wonderful that the person you're putting faith in is yourself.
— Jessie Burton
The truth, Ms Rainn, is that advice and inspirational quotes and sayings may give you a kick start, but it's up to you to keep that motivation alive.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
Believe in thyself.It is a great gift for thyself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on!
— Nehali Lalwani
You don't know who you are
—  you just know what they’ve told you about who you are!
Life=Unconditional loveIf you can feel this equation. I said IF you can FEEL this equation you can solve any mystery of life and finally you will understand life is not a mystery.
— Sarjot Singh
Used to keep my thinking in a box , I realized it was confining Broke it down decided I was more than the limits others placed on me~bns
— Bluenscottish
Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply.
— Fennel Hudson, Wild Carp - Fennel's Journal - No. 4
Caregivers had to take care of themselves, and part of that meant having a life beyond whatever illness had put them in their cole.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.
— Kevin James Moore, The Go-Go Girl