Hans Selye Quotes

Stress is the spice of life.

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

I am stressed because once I am flattened out so thin to be able to slide under a doorway, I may never be able to ever be unflattened so I could be regular sized again.

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.

It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

I don't get stressed out.

I've been one of those people that hold on to a little bit more stress than others. People take certain situations a little bit differently.

There will always be a lot of pressure to cope with.

I'm not a big worrier because I just think stress is just not a good thing... it's just like, what's the point?

With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.

Pressure feels sort of normal to me.

I'll worry about something and get stressed whereas Ant is usually a bit more chilled about things.

In real life, when I can avoid anything stressful, I do.

I have learned that there's a little bit of a danger in stressing ourselves out and living in the future - worry affects how we are today.

I don't really let the pressure get to me.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.