Anti-Stress Tissues

Worry is rust upon the blade. - Henry Ward Hughes

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. - Jack Nicklaus

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of all the things to worry about; the Wookie has no pants. - Mark Hamill

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. - Steven Wright

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you. - Dolly Parton

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. - Roy Acuff

Reality: The leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. - Lily Tomlin

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. - Charles C. Colton

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - J. Churton Collins

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists. - Don Marquis

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. - Plutarch

Retirement means no pressure, no stress, no heartache... unless you play golf. - Gene Perret

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. - Billy Graham

Most stress is caused by people who overestimate the importance of their problems. - Michael LeBoeuf

Stress depletes willpower, which diminishes your ability to control those emotions. - Roy F Baumeister

In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked. - Jonathan Katz

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. - Scott Adams

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein

An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Unknown

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - Alexander Pope

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. - Jim Carrey

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress. - Gail Sheehy

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. - Joe Scarborough

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus