Deep Meditation

Stress makes you stupid. - Unknown

Worry is practical atheism. - Unknown

Worry is rust upon the blade. - Henry Ward Hughes

Sleep is the best meditation. - Dalai Lama

Worry is a waste of the imagination. - Unknown

Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron

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

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind. - Susan Cheever

Adversity tests a man's true character. - Unknown

Give your stress wings and let it fly away. - Gerri Guillemets

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

Beyond meditation there is the experience of now. - Ryan Parenti

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. - Robert G. Allen

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin

All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God. - Oswald Chambers

Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back. - Steven Wright

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - Thomas Carlyle

Smile. It will bring serenity to the most stressful situations. - Garnet Hill

Don't use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe. - Unknown

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. - Gerald Jampolsky

For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. - T. Guillemets

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

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

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

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

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

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rosseau

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

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

There is not enough time in life to worry about there being enough time in life. - Atticus

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. - Alice Walker

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

In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked. - Jonathan Katz

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

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. - George Bernard Shaw

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

The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren't enough. - Amy Weintraub

An optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Winston Churchill

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

You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller

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

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. - Mark Twain

A man of character does not expect to be liked by everyone, nor does he worry about being liked by anyone. - Unknown

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

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. - Horace

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. - Robert Benchley

Yoga is really trying to liberate us from shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing. - Rodney Yee

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. - Alexander Pope

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. - Jim Carrey

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. - Bill Vaughan

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger. - Lou Holtz

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

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

I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. - Joe Scarborough

My Dad once said, "you wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did." - Dr. Phil McGraw

Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. - Charles H Spurgeon

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. - Elvis Presley

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

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

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. - Epicurus