"Anxiety never yet successfully bridged any chasm." Giovanni Ruffini

"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it." Osho

"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul." William Hazlitt

"Which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto his stature?" Bible

"Handle stress the way a dog does. If you can't chew it or play with it; just pee on it and walk away." unknown

"When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score." John Enoch Powell

"Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance." Author Unknown

"Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball." Mitzi Chandler

"I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess." Dale Carnegie

"To be 'on edge,' you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center." Carrie Latet

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. " Abraham Lincoln

"There is much more to the mind than just thinking. When your mind is silent, the Universe surrenders." Master Sun, 7 minutes of magic

"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness." Cicero

"Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries." Astrid Alauda

"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." Terri Guillemets

"A bar of iron continually ground becomes a needle." Chinese proverb

"If your teeth are clenched and your fists are clenched, your lifespan is probably clenched."Terri Guillemets

"You can't stop a bird from flying into your hair, but you don't have to help him build a nest." unknown

"If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it." Toni Morrison


"It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

"A branch that doesn't bend, breaks." Proverb

"The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one." Wallace D. Wattles

"All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone." Blaise Pascal

"If there is no solution, why worry? If there is a solution, why worry?" H.H. Dalai Lama

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." Etty Hillesum

" Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." Chinese Proverb

"The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself." Marie Bashkirtseff

"A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work." John Lubbock

"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it." Mark Twain

"Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it." Albert Richard Smith, author and entertainer (1816-1860)

"The greater the tension, the greater the potential." Carl Jung

"Bacteria and other microorganisms find it easier to infect people who worry and fret." Leo Rangell

"Take the time to come home to yourself every day." Robin Casarjean

"Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year." Ogden Nash

"If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." William James

"The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, 
while cares will drop away from you, like the leaves of Autumn." John Muir

"I've found the art of living is avoiding the shoals and the rocks. But the truth of the matter is none of us can avoid the shoals and the rocks." Thomas Jefferson

"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it." George F. Burns

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." Swedish proverb

"Just sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." Zen proverb

"When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath." Svatmarama, Hatha Yoga Pradipika

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time." John Lubbock

"Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times as fast."Peter Drucker management consultant, professor and writer (1909-2005)

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” Robert Orben

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability." Sam Keen

"No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one." Elbert Hubbard

"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking." Earl Wilson

"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." Milan Kundera

"Have a variety of interests . . . . These interests relax the mind and lessen the tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest." George Matthew Allen

“Solvitur ambulando.” (It is solved by walking.) St. Augustine

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” William Penn

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” David Allen

“Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.” Doug King

“The act of sitting down and surrendering to a piece of writing defies the cult of speed.” Carl Honore, Canadian journalist, In Praise of Slowness, 2004

"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to." Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.” Kathryn Carpenter

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” Ovid

“Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year olds.” JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmers Wisdom

“For fast-acting relief, try s l  o w i  n g   d o w  n.” Lily Tomlin

“No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you'd be more productive.” Dr. Joyce Brothers