Anti-Stress Tissues

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

Adversity introduces a man to himself. - Unknown

Worry is simply imagination gone awry. - Peter Alwinson

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

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

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. - William R Inge

When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer. - David Jeremiah

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

Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records. - William A. Ward

Love is something sent from heaven to worry the hell out of you. - Dolly Parton

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. - Edward Abbey

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

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway. - Unknown

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

God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress. - Kelly Clarkson

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

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. - Dale Carnegie

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful. - Sean O'Faolain

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

Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its troubles... it empties today of its strength. - Mary Englelbreit

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

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

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

People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity. - John C Maxwell

Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum

In the long run, the pessimist may be proved right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. - Unknown

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

Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful. - J K Rowling

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

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. - Josh Billings

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. - Helen Keller

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. - Samuel Daniel

Animals are not our selfie props. If there's any risk that your photo is going to hurt or stress an animal, it's not worth it. - Angela Henderson

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. - Arthur Golden

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet