| "Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done." »Julia Louise Woodruff |
| "strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero |
| "We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." »Shana Alexander |
| "With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." »Shana Alexander |
| "The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important." »Milo Bloom |
| "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." »Bertrand Russell |
| "When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion." »Albert Einstein |
| "If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules First, calm down second, come over and wash my car third, shine all my shoes. There, isn't that better" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul." »Alice James |
| "Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt." »Charles H. Mayo |
| "If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered." »A. Edward Newton |
| "I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us." »Walt Whitman |
| "The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you." »John Updike |
| "Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for songWild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night longSad storm, whose tears are vain,Bare woods, whose branches strain,Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong" »Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| "You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength." »Henry Adams |
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