Hans Selye Quotes

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Indeed, not all attacks - especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin - are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

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.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.

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

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