Anti-Stress Tissues

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. - Swedish Proverb

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

The pessimist is half-licked before he starts. - Thomas A. Buckner

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist. - Paul Harvey

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis Bacon

A pessimist is someone who makes difficulties of his opportunities. - Unknown

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. - J. Churton Collins

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

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. - Oscar Wilde

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain

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

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. - Elias Canetti

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. - Johnny Cash

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. - Billy Graham

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you. - Winston Churchill

Boredom is a learned behavior and a form of anxiety that stems from our thinking. - Unknown

The dead won't bother you. It's the living you've got to worry about. - John Wayne Gacy

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. - H Jackson Brown, Jr.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. - Austin O'Malley

Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime. - Scott Adams

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. - Baxter Bell

I worry about scientists discovering someday that lettuce has been fattening all along. - Erma Bombeck

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever. - Mary Ann Mobley

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try. - Jack Canfield

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. - Howard Zinn

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. - Marshall McLuhan

Even in the midst of life's adversity, struggle or strife, love's enduring presence remains steadfast. - Eleesha

Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love. - Mariah Burton Nelson

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

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. - Dale Carnegie

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. - Unknown

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie