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Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Vaccination: An ouch of prevention - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Haruki Murakami

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

If stress burned calories, I'd be a supermodel. - Unknown

Champions expect pain, endure pain, and never complain. - Unknown

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men. - Virgil

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands. - Fred Perry

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. - Kenji Miyazawa

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. - Charlie Chaplin

Reach for the stars, even if you have to stand on a cactus. - Susan Longacre

Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. - Bob Phillips

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. - Chang Ch'ao

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

Pleasure of love lasts but a moment. Pain of love lasts a lifetime. - Bette Davis

Suicide doesn't end the pain. It just passes it on to someone else. - James Kirkup

The great art of life is sensation; to feel that we exist, even in pain. - Lord Byron

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

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

A diamond is just a piece of coal that handles stress exceptionally well. - Unknown

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down. - Malcolm Cowley

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up. - Ann Bradford

You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. - J K Rowling

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live. - Kanye West

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

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

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you known it is healed. - Lyanla Vanzant

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. - Erma Bombeck

Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king. - Josephine Hull

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. - Pearl S. Buck

The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable. - Lane Olinghouse

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. - Shaquille O'Neal

If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week. - Will Rogers

Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting... it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity. - Marcus Aurelius

The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure. - Celeste Holm

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

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you, or you can use it as fuel to drive you: to dream bigger, to work harder. - Taylor Swift

To be a champion, you have to learn to handle stress and pressure. But if you've prepared mentally and physically, you don't have to worry. - Harvey Mackay