Couch Ouch

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Pain will leave you, when you let go. - Jeremy Aldana

The patient always lies on the couch. - Unknown

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand. - Dutch Proverb

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. - Haruki Murakami

Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. - David Mamet

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. - John Lennon

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

Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer. - Joan Rivers

A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain. - WC Fields

The kind man feeds his cat before sitting down to dinner. - Hebrew Proverb

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

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

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

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. - Tom Waits

Too much homework can cause stress, depression and even lower grades. - Unknown

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

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

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased - thus do we refute entropy. - Spider Robinson

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

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. - Ogden Nash

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. - Joseph Campbell

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

You purchase pain with all that joy can give and die of nothing but a rage to live. - Alexander Pope

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

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

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow. - Celia Cruz

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

Just like a shoe, if someone is meant for you, they will fit just perfectly. No forcing, no struggling, and no pain. - Unknown

I'm not just retiring from the company, I'm also retiring from my stress, my commute, my alarm clock, and my iron. - Hartman Jule

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth. - Unknown

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot. - Sergey Galitsky

Do something everyday that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. - Mark Twain

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy. - Amy Alcott

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

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! - Joseph Addison