“The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles … are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.”

William Matthews
“It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.”

Hans Selye
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

Mother Teresa

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

Albert Einstein
“Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.”

Andrew Denton
“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.”

Norman Vincent Peale
“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.”

Douglas Pagels

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’
I am always tempted to ask, ‘compared to what’?”

Sydney Harris

The body of man is a machine which winds its own springs.
- J. O. De La Mettrie

Fitness – If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
- Cher

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
- Earl of Derby

True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are united.
- Alexander von Humboldt

A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time – pills or stairs.
- Joan Welsh

-Unknown

Stress is not what happens to us.
It’s our response to what happens. And response is something we can choose.

-Maureen Killoran

When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question:
Will this matter in 5 years from now?
If yes, then do something about the situation.
If no, then let it go.

-Catherine Pulsifer

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

-Hans Selye

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

-Seneca

-Bill Maher

I don’t know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.

-Woody Allen

I’m a terrible lover. I’ve actually given a woman an anti-climax.

-Scott Roeben

Nothing makes you forget about love like sex.

-Stacy Beasley

Science is a lot like sex. Sometimes something useful comes of it, but that’s not the reason we’re doing it.

-Richard Feynman

-Oprah Winfrey

The best birthdays of all are those that haven’t arrived yet.

-Robert Orben

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s
birthday but never remembers her age.

-Robert Frost

Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?

- Bobby Kelton

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

-Jennifer Yane

-George Bernard Shaw

It is not sufficient to see and know the beauty of a work.  We must feel and be affected by it.

-Voltaire

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

-Confucius

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

-Sloan Wilson

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.

-Cernuda Y. Bidon

-Mark Twain

Someone who smokes may want to simply put the pack down and call it quits, but for instance, if you smoke 10 cigarettes a day, cutting back to nine and so on until you gradually quit might give you the best chance of sticking with your decision.

-Rene Britt

Jack, at a New Year’s party, turns to his friend, Harry, and asks for a cigarette.

“Yeah,” laughs Jack, “I have quit buying.”

-Unknown

Health is not everything, but without health, everything else is nothing.

-Unknown