"People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement."
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"Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe."
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"The elusive truth is that there is nothing stress-producing in the physical world. Things simply are. Molecules move. Light and sound appear."
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"The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real."
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"You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change."
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"Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently."
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"It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one."
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"Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored."
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"Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it."
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"I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time."
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"I think especially as women we nned to recognize that feeling pressure is completely selfimposed."
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
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"There is no such thing as stress; only people thinking stressful thoughts."
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"There is no actual stress or anxiety in the world, your thoughts create these false beliefs."
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"Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact."
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"If we could create the conditions that make racism difficult, or discourage it, then there would be less stress and less need for affirmative action programs. One of those conditions would be an economic policy that would create tight labor markets over long periods of time. Now does that mean that affirmative action is here only temporarily? I think the ultimate goal should be to remove it."
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"Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?"
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"If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks."
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"I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark."
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"I think there's more stressful periods than others when you're launching new things or going into a new business, or there are many things that can stress you out. Having to let people go, that's stressful. Never fun. But for the most part, I try to manage a schedule that's achievable and try not to make a schedule that's not. And a lot of times, sometimes it becomes a little unmanageable, but in spurts. So I think being able to make an achievable schedule, one that I know I can accomplish."
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