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“When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."”

“Mindfulness is about finding ways to slow down and pay attention to the present moment-which improves performance and reduces stress. It’s about having the time and space to attend to what’s right in front of us, even though many other forces are trying to keep us stuck in the past or inviting us to fantasize or worry about the future. It’s about a natural quality each of us possesses, and which we can further develop in just a few minutes a day.”

Source: A Mindful Nation: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit

“In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.”

Should May Children Ideas Past Literature Given Wish Blessing Lows Should Have India Stress Population Epic

Author:Indira Gandhi

“That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business. They often are so concerned with the fans' reactions that they're willing to kill themselves, while I am trying to help them move past that. It is not about the move, it's about the moment you create, and that's what I'm doing through my broken brilliance.”

Trying Moments Helping Past Moving Fans Willing Broken Concerned Stress Reactions Spots Monkeys Brilliance Epidemics Wrestler

Author:Matt Hardy

“Less mess, less stress. That's my rule! If you don't stay on top of decluttering, it can get out of control. I maintain as much as possible. I'll do seasonal edits and decide what we can toss or donate. If we don't love it, need it or haven't used it in the past year, it's gone.”

Past Stress Mess Donate

Author:Molly Sims

“I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.”

People Years Firsts Country Past Grew Stress Sixty Coming Back Touring Brazil Free Country Stress Free

Author:Dionne Warwick

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”

Reality Seems Past Natural Half Vision Fantasy Imagine Anxiety Stress Response Eras Retreat Unlikely Unstable Recourse Stress And Anxiety

Author:Alan Moore

“I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.”

Ifs Years Mean Littles Has Beens Made Past Fine Stress Seven Witty Excited Overwhelmed Seven Years Reacting Adjectives Proceeding Bossypants Possums

Author:Tina Fey

“Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.”

Wells Past Sleep Needed Safe Stress Vampire Bipolar Dosage

Book:Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires

Source: Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.”

Thinking Men Life Action Past Space Perfect Future Men And Women Stress Dimensions Cracks Imperfect Framework Not Perfect Static Free Man Past Present Past Present And Future

Book:Time and the Art of Living

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.”

Persons Problem Past Turns Greater Stress Drinking Quitting Smoking Quit Smoking Overeating

Author:Marilu Henner

“know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, You be havin good thoughts but the evils be revealin'. And the stresses of life can take you off the right path, Jealousy and envy tends to infiltrate your staff... We gotta hold it down so we can move on past All adversities, so we can get through fast.”

Knows Past Moving Evil Path Stress Adversity Hip Hop Rap Envy Villain Staff Good Thoughts Right Path Jealousy And Envy

Author:Q-Tip

“We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our inner souls were asked what in life they really missed, the answer would be primal danger and stress.”

Ifs Soul Dream Would Be Past Answers Danger Stress Golden Excitement Suspects Primal Golden Days

Author:Robert Grudin

“Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.”

Needs Ideas Past Belief Can Do Memories Stress Prejudice Boundaries No Idea Assumption Traps Our Memories

Author:Deepak Chopra