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"Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done." »Julia Louise Woodruff
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." »Abraham Lincoln
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"strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero
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"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous." »Shana Alexander
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"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." »Shana Alexander
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"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections." »George Eliot
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long." »Robert Lynd
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"The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important." »Milo Bloom
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"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." »Bertrand Russell
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"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness." »Carl Rogers
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"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
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"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
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"Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters." »M. F. K. Fisher
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"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
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"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse." »Henry Tuckerman
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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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"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
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"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
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"One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: "Have no anxiety about the morrow"; or the words of Sir William Osler; "Live in day-tight compartments." »Dale Carnegie
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"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture." »Sidney Madwed
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