"Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan."

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Source : "How Do You Make An Elderly Worm Feel Young Again?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 22, 2015.

Cynthia Kenyon

#Aging Quotes #Imagine Quotes #Slow Down Quotes

“I can't just watch a horror movie and leave it at that. The scary parts just stick with me. It kind of infiltrates my brain and sometimes I can't sleep at night, so usually I don't go and voluntarily watch one.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.”
“The higher the hair, the closer to heaven.”
“This, then, is my choice: I can allow the events of my life to happen to me. Or I can take those very same actions and make them my own. I can live in my own present, risk failure, be assured of failure.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (Enhanced Edition): A Novel”, p.212, Knopf
“High fidelity is a rich experience, and you'll put up with terrible convenience to get it - maybe it's high cost, waiting in line, jumping through hoops. High convenience is the opposite - it's a commodity, but it's cheap and easy and ubiquitous. A great exclusive boutique shop is high fidelity; Wal-Mart is high convenience. Both are hard to establish in their own way. The thing to remember about sustaining either is that you can't sit still. Some other entity will always find a way to challenge your fidelity position or your convenience position.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I think that by staying out of shape at the age of 33 I'm doing myself a huge favor for my future. There will never be anyone commenting on how I've 'let myself go.' I've gone. It's gone. It's not going, it's GONE.”
“The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.”
“It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.”

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