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“The damn organ between his ribs continued to pound relentlessly. He cursed again, gripping the windowsill until his knuckles turned white, but his heart wouldn't slow.
As if insisting on reminding him that he had one.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Depression’s defining symptom is anhedonia, the inability to feel, anticipate, or pursue pleasure. Chronic stress depletes the mesolimbic system of dopamine, generating anhedonia. The link between childhood adversity and adult depression involves both organizational effects on the developing mesolimbic system and elevated adult glucocorticoid levels, which can deplete dopamine.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Stressful conditions tax our cognitive bandwidth, reducing our ability to think clearly and exercise executive control. Stress also hurts our ability to make rational long-term decisions that require delayed gratification. Living in a community in which we feel a sense of trust and support acts as a buffer against the detrimental impact of scarcity. However, a higher level of income inequality in our community can fray our sense of social trust.”
― Dan Ariely, Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things

“Everything has
its own pace
its own timing.

True of working, studying, learning.
True of illness, sorrow, grief.
True of change, of transformation.
True of conflict.
True of peace.

You can't change the pace
without changing its nature,
changing the experience.
And the experience is its own end.

The end never justifies the means
because every means is its own end.

It's not just about you,
your natural pace,
it's about what you're doing
what's being done
butterfly effects
over miles and years.

The river will not be pushed.
The rain will not cease until it has finished pouring down.
The sun will not rise before dawn.

This is where we are.”
― Shellen Lubin

“In order to win in business and life you must take command of the moment you are living in right now.”
― Joe Hart, Take Command

“Some people complicate their life and then complain that their life is complicated.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“Stress also desynchronizes activation in different frontocortical regions, which impairs the ability to shift attention between tasks.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“The Comfort Zone is a place where you feel safe and at ease, without stress. It’s where you can be fully yourself without feeling threatened. It’s your inner home, your sanctuary.”
― Kristen Butler, The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow

“Too much tension is a disease; but so is too little. There are certain occasions when we ought to be tense, when an excess of tranquility (and especially of tranquility imposed from the outside, by a chemical) is entirely inappropriate.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“Whether one becomes irrationally risk taking (failing to shift strategy in response to a declining reward rate) or risk averse (failing to respond to the opposite), one is incorporating new information poorly. Stated most broadly, sustained stress impairs risk assessment.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“In the absence of stress, men tend toward more risk taking than women; thus, once again, hormones enhance a preexisting tendency.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“... contemporary studies show that the worst stress-related health typically occurs in middle management, with its killer combo of high work demands but little autonomy -responsibility without control.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Here I am counting my blessings, wins and successes, while the closest people to me are counting my trials, losses and curses. Same book, different page. It be your own family.”
― Niedria Kenny, Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“Everything has
its own pace
its own timing.

True of working, studying, learning.
True of illness, sorrow, grief.
True of change, of transformation.
True of conflict.
True of peace.

You can't change the pace.”
― Shellen Lubin

“The end never justifies the means
because every means is its own end.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Female reproductive life history is linked to cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and endocrine alterations to physiology in ways that have not only short-term but also long-term and, in some cases, permanent effects.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“Emotions are like waves; they ebb and flow, they come and go. Accept your feelings without trying to hold onto the ones you want to keep or force away the ones you don't want. Remember, peace always returns.”
― Denise Marek, CALM for Moms: Worry Less in Four Simple Steps

“. . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes.”
― Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

“Whether we perceive that the changes caused by a life event are exciting and that we can handle them - or we believe that they're overwhelming and beyond our ability to cope effectively - determines if we'll adapt smoothly and enjoy the excitement of a new experience or will feel stressed out by it.”
― Dr. Mara Karpel, The Passionate Life : Creating Vitality & Joy at Any Age

“Build resilience and courage.”
― Joe Hart, Take Command

“It’s when I start burning the candle at three ends that I begin to wonder how many candles I’m actually burning.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Stress is a survival mechanism that serves an obvious evolutionary function. When we are anxious, our autonomic nervous system releases a cascade of chemicals (stress hormones), which give our body instructions on how to prepare to face danger. Our heart beats faster to pump more blood to the muscles, and our breathing becomes heavier to provide us with more oxygen. Muscles tense up to protect us from injury and to facilitate fighting or running. Sweating helps cool the body down. Our attention increases, and our reflexes become sharper, keeping us alert. Stress acts as motivation, helping us to focus on our goals and rise to meet our challenges, whether those involve studying for an exam, flying a fighter jet or scoring that match-winning goal. In short, stress serves a purpose. The problem, however, is that beyond certain threshold stress ceases to be useful.”
― Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

“Evolutionary analyses suggest that stress is not what it used to be. For most of human history our ancestors lived in physical and social environment that were very different from what most of us experience today. Life in those environments imposed a set of selection pressures that shaped our species�� genome and behavior, leading to the evolution of anatomically modern humans. Although it is not entirely clear where exactly one should draw the line between them and more archaic forms, paleoanthropologists agree that by at least 50,000 years ago our ancestors were fully human.”
― Dimitris Xygalatas, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living

“A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“How can I deal with this compassionately?”
― Babauta L.

“To build muscle: stress, rest, repeat.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Rep By Rep

“I sit in the field, just waiting for the rain again,
with patience, yet without an ounce of stress,
I wait to have the heart that’s my refrain,
the heart which heals me without to poison press��”
― Will Advise, На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...

“A Moment of Joy"
The ruling global elites
are holding their breath in anticipation of
who may be the first to start a nuclear war!
The wealthy and the stock market traders
are fearfully watching the fluctuation in the stock prices��
Writers, media pundits, and academics
on the payroll of power and authority
are worried about a potential revolution
that may put an end to the powers in place,
and consequently to their existence!
Doctors, engineers, and other professionals
are all alarmed and watching the job market
in fear of losing their cushy jobs!
Only the waitress at the nearby restaurant
is experiencing a moment of joy
for the generous tip she just received
from the last customer tonight!

[Original poem published in Arabic on October 30,2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako

“For those who ask, “Why do you want to be my friend?��
I respond readers are naturally friends.”
― Kayle James, How to stop overthinking it: Unlock intrusive thoughts, anxiety and stress to achieve emotional freedom.

“Nature. It's the furthest away from the drama, news, and stressors of life. Find your way to some nature today.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Pearls of Light: passion, poetry & positive affirmations