Learn To Relax Quotes To Calm You Down

Life stress quotes: Do you know that stress doesn't come from circumstances? In fact it comes from our thoughts about our circumstances. In other words, it is completely internal and will always follow you around. So you don't force your yourself to relax. It only aggravates the situation.

You can minimize your stress level by changing your perception and then act on positive behaviors which encourage the elimination of stress.

If you want find out more on how to change the way you think about stress or anxiety, I strongly recommend you this easy-to-understand and practical book called "The Myth of Stress: Where Stress Really Comes From and How to Live a Happier and Healthier Life" by Andrew Bernstein.

Another interesting book which has a similar approach to overcome depression, rage and despair is "Loving What Is" written by Byron Katie. She also says that the root of our suffering is to do with our thoughts. I am sure you have heard the power of happy thoughts.

Check out these selected relax and stress quotes:

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

"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

"Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness." - Richard Carlson

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."  - Margaret Fuller

"Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started." - David Allen

Don't Stress Life Quotes:

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers

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

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

"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop." - Ovid

"For fast-acting relief, try slowing down." - Lily Tomlin

"It is not what happens to us. It's our response TO what happens. And response is something we can choose." - Maureen Killoran

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

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

Relaxation Quotes About Life:

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop, Fables

"Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you." - John De Paola

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

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

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” - Baba Ram Dass

"Stress is an admission of weakness, a cry of defeat to the world." - Carrie Latet

Quotations On Gratitude We Should Be Thankful For

What is gratitude? Gratitude is counting your blessings, being thankful, and acknowledging and appreciating everything that you receive.

Expressing gratitude can calm your emotions, and is good for the heart and soul. A powerful way to increase your well-being, indeed.

Gratitude is pleasing and it makes you feel good. It is also motivating as well. It is said that regular grateful thinking can increase happiness by 25 percent.

I have read that folks who are habitually grateful people have more drive, optimism, social connections and happiness.

According to Nuns of Mankato Study by David Snowdon, he discovered that nuns who had expressed gratitude-based emotions in their writing as girls, lived longer.

If you want to know more about gratitude, then get this great book "Thanks!: How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier" by Robert Emmons.

In this book, he talks about about the personal and interpersonal benefits of gratitude. Dr Emmons who is a professor of psychology at UC Davis also shares with you, 10 practical strategies for becoming more grateful.

Here, I collected a great selection quotations about gratitude quotes to inspired you to know  and appreciate of the goodness in your life right now, and also everything that you have to be thankful for.

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” — Epictetus

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” - Lionel Hampton


“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” - French Proverb


"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic." - John Henry Jowett

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good

"If the only prayer you say in your life is Thank you, it would be enough." - Meister Eckhart


“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” - Thornton Wilder

"Saying thank you is more than good manners.  It is good spirituality." - Alfred Painter


"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." - William Faulkner


"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." - Eric Hoffer

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." - Jean Baptiste Massieu


"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

"Reflect on your present blessings- of which every man has many- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens


"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Grace and gratitude go together like heaven and earth." - Karl Barth

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated." - William James


"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder." - G.K. Chesterton

“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” - William Arthur Ward


"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero

"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much." - Estonian Proverb

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." - William Arthur Ward

"For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends." - Ralph Waldo Emerson


“Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” - Kahlil Gibran

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” - Oscar Wilde