We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

Social media has infected the world with a sickening virus called vanity.

The light of revelation cannot shine through the fire of anger." (HS/el)

A good shepherd always gives people freedom to choose

For Calo, Galdo, and Bug

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.