"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."
— David Mamet (Boston Marriage)

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time."
— Leonard Bernstein

"My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

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— Mahogany SilverRain (EBONY ENCOUNTERS: A Trilogy of Erotic Tales)

"How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between."
— Anaïs Nin

"If you choose to not deal with an issue,
then you give up your right of control over the issue
and it will select the path of least resistance.
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— Susan Del Gatto

"We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed."
— Mawhinney and Sagan

"the mind can go either way under stress - towards positive or negative........the way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training"
— Frank Herbert

"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
— Jane Wagner

"“The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.”"
— Ellen Glasgow

"You take the individual we are talking about and then you subject him to stress. Stress happens to come randomly, but its effect on the personality is not random; it's specific. That results in a certain amount of chaos, confusion, and frustration. That person begins to seek out a target for his frustrations. The continued nature of this stress this person was under -- the nature of the flaw or weakness in his personality, together with other elements in the environment that offer him a logical target for his frustrations or escapes from reality -- yields the situation we're discussing. There is no trigger, it is truly more sophisticated than that."
— Ted Bundy

"As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide."
— Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come)