Overwhelm Quotes

“The rapture of an ‘innocent moment’ or an “unsuspected instant” can overwhelm us at any time, throughout our lives, and surprise us with a storm of liberating waves of good vibrations.( What do they think behind their dirty aprons?)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“I have spent my life clinging to my own shores for safety. Flying like a bird above the storm waters of my own body, too scared to land. I guess that is why the sea floods in to visit me. I have been too frightened to venture out into her depths alone. The central core of me is dark and churning, I can only sense it vaguely. It scares me with its power. As a late-diagnosed autistic woman, I realise that this experience is partly neurological…my sensory abilities are all hyper-aroused on the surface, and my nervous system melts down when it becomes overwhelmed in everyday places. But my ability to know what is going on within is flawed. Instead of an accurate information readout, there is a big, dark, unknowable mass within. I am sailing blind without map or lighthouse within my own skin. It feels a very scary place to have a life sentence. This is why I write: to attempt to find words for what this big scariness is, to try and find images to give form and name to the wild churning expanse.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, She of the Sea

“Calling everything that goes wrong “stress” is a cop out. The blanket term is a slippery slope that can contribute to feeling you have no control over your “stressful” life. You do!”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Rest contributes to achieving bigger goals more easily and living a more enjoyable life.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Longing for a sense of peace, fulfillment and happiness? These are absolutely possible through resilience! It just takes small tweaks to find joy in your day-to-day.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“To Take Back Your Weekends you have three choices:
1. Work longer hours during the week.
2. Stop doing some of the tasks you’re doing. 3. Change the way you approach the work you do.
Option three is the most powerful.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“A better system to manage your to-do list won’t liberate days each month. It’s not the system, it’s the how you allocate your mental, emotional and physical capacity that steals your productivity.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Want to be more productive? Uncover the subtle nuances that steal your productivity and fix those.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Want to feel less stressed? Then you need to make friends with stress. Leverage good stress and minimize typical destructive stress.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Time freedom is found by shifting how you allocate your emotional, mental and physical capacity each day toward tasks, obstacles and adversities.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Typically, when we face a challenge, we immediately look for a solution. It feels logical, but solution-first thinking is not the best way to solve problems. First, you need to go to the heart of the issue. Then solutions have a fighting chance to stick.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“If a problem repeats itself in your life – fix it. If you don’t invest time today to buy back time tomorrow the same habit will repeat forever.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“In the stop we find the best answers. As the old saying goes, slow down to speed up.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“A to-do list doesn’t end. The finish line always moves. Chasing its completion is a game you can win. It’s not a list. It’s a Task Circle.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“The tasks that need to be done are not the problem. It’s the negative emotional and mental connection to the unfinished tasks that’s the problem.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“If your to-do list influences your mood, your happiness is a risk.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Either it’s your brain’s responsibility to remember a task or it’s your list’s responsibility. Not both. Write it and forget it.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Not all stress is bad. In fact, stress-done-right can be a highly effective tool to drive your success.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Your to-do list is not a predator. If it’s causing you stress, then finding a state of peace is out of your reach.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“To completely eliminate natural distractions from the workday is unrealistic. It’s better to embrace human nature and allow for these distractions in a way that accentuates your natural rhythms.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“If your satisfaction is only tied to achieving big goals, you may wait weeks, months or years to feel accomplished. Get emotionally fired-up by completing small milestones to gain momentum.”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“Maybe what you’re living in not a “stressful” life. What if it’s just life?”
― Allison Graham, Take Back Your Weekends: Stress Less. Do More. Be Happier.

“There are times
when all I can take in
lies between my headlights.”
― L.M. Browning, Drive Through the Night

“Finely tuned to the swells of my own and others' hearts, I sensed a deep we'll at my center, a kind of umbilical cord that linked me to a roiling infinity of knowledge and pathos that underlay the trivia of our daily lives... I would read or think or feel myself into a brimming state-- not joy or sorrow, but some apex of their intersection, the raw matter from which each was made-- then lie with my back to the ground, body vibrating, heart thudding, mind foaming, thrilled and afraid that I might combust, might simply die of feeling too much.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“Embrace change, or it will overwhelm you.”
― Steven Magee

“Prismic Productivity in Anti-Time Management is about becoming the best version of yourself and having time to enjoy it and help others even when circumstances overwhelm.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Let’s sit down, close our eyes, and reassure our hearts and minds that everything will be fine. This feeling will pass if we allow it to melt away, and taking this moment will help us prepare for whatever comes our way.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Anti-Gravity Menace

“Let’s break the problem down into smaller parts. That way we can focus on one thing at a time, combining our strengths and the power of our minds.”
― Lyra Brave, Luna Heartstrong & the Anti-Gravity Menace

“These researchers found that trauma is a subjective, perceptive, and physiological response to a person, place, or thing that overwhelms the nervous system's natural capacity to cope. Practically, this means that trauma is in the eye of the beholder. What is traumatic for one person may not be traumatic for another, and thr body may experience trauma as a result of either a real threat or a perceived one.”
― Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion