"Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits. Apparently it boosts the immune system, reduces stress hormones, massages the heart and diaphragm and engenders a 'feel good' factor."

-- Semir Zeki

#Laughter Quotes #Stress Quotes #Heart Quotes

“That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.”
“I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.”

Source : "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden". Interview with Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.
“That's life and you can't change anything, you know.”
“Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.”
“What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.”
“I'm a woman of the '90s.”
“It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Source : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (2000). “Respect: An Exploration”, p.4, Basic Books
“If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.”

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