Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

Natalie Goldberg

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In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

Multitasking is the sign of a stressed and diseased mind simultaneously doing many things poorly. Quality work and quality thinking require quiet focus.

When we're anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they're only casting their long shadows over our lives.

Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.

Abraham Twerski

Stress is a confused state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Natalie Goldberg

We're a nation of exhausted and overstressed adults raising overscheduled children.

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