Mindy Kaling Quotes

It's very challenging to get the right balance between relaxing and working.

My girlfriend has to beat me up to get me to relax because I work all the time.

Stress is the spice of life.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

I am stressed because once I am flattened out so thin to be able to slide under a doorway, I may never be able to ever be unflattened so I could be regular sized again.

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.

I feel a lot. I get really bad stomachaches all the time. So I went to a doctor, and he said, 'You're a feeler.' I take on people's pain a little too much.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I've got a lot of little compulsive problems, and I've thought about it a lot. And one of the things I ask myself is, 'What are the things I can do that won't hurt me and will help me?' The first answer is work.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.

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

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.

I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

My passion is to help people live lives with less stress.

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

I used to take life so seriously; I got so stressed.

I guess I don't really let the stress of my family weigh on my career, weigh on my options anymore, which I think we all need freedom from.

Everyone struggles with ups and downs and there is great therapy in knowing we all go through it.

Whether it comes to media pressure or anything, I've become a bit laid back and actually not bothered.