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RS-If you want to understand the biology of a behavior, you cannot just study the immediate cause. You have to consider the entire span of influences—from the genes and hormones to the environment and culture."Stress is not a state of mind. It’s measurable and dangerous, and humans can’t seem to find their off-switch."
"The most damaging stressors are the ones over which you have no control and no sense of predictability."
"It’s not the stress that kills us; it’s the stress about stress."
Humans are unique in their ability to simultaneously think about the past, the present, and the future. This is both our blessing and our curse."
"Biology is not destiny. The only inevitability about our behavior is that it’s malleable."
The beauty of science is in the questions it raises, even more than the answers it finds."
"The world is far too complex to be reduced to simple formulas, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying to understand it."
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At night when the whole world sleeps, we fight our reality in our minds and look up at the stars wishing for a different life.
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I used to think, "OMG, I'm a senior citizen, and there are folks my age in the obituary column every week!" It used to bother me that I was headed down a long path that was getting shorter. But now I take it one day at a time and am glad when I wake up and find I’m still here and have a little more time to enjoy life even if it is getting shorter. Just make the best of it if you can.
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