Andrew Bernstein Quotes

Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.

It's kind of a little fly-on-the-wall look at these people trying to stay sane.

Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

All pressure is self-inflicted. It's what you make of it or how you let it rub off on you.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

When you can't cope with change, you feel overwhelmed, and you look for a simple solution.

If you're out there and things are going badly, are you going to cry or break down?

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

Pressure's what you make of it.

You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

It's very rare that people let me hop off the crazy wagon.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Panic is our great enemy.

I've learned to deal with stress much better now, things don't bother me in the way that they once used to.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.