Sometimes we just need to hear something encouraging to help put things into perspective. Here are our 15 favorite stress reducing quotes.

1. “Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
–John De Paola

2. “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
–Chinese Proverb

3. “Sometimes a headache is all in your head. Relax.”
–Hartman Jule

4. “It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.”
–Wayne Dyer

5. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
-William James

6. “Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.”
–Douglas Pagels

7. “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”

–Leonard Bernstein

8. “I was a little excited but mostly blorft. “Blorft” is an adjective I just made up that means ‘Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.’ I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”
–Tina Fey, Bossypants

9. “My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.”
–Mahogany SilverRain

10. “I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
–Steve Maraboli

11. “The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.”
–Jim Goodwin

12. “Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!”
–Unknown

13. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”
– Pooh’s Little Instruction Book

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

15. “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

–Marcus Aurelius

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