"It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens."

-- Jane McGonigal

#Stress Quotes #Playing Games Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.”
“I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.”
“Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction.”
“Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.”

Source : Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press
“Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.”
“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

Source : CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”
“The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.”
“Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.”

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