"Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the bodyâ€™s circadian rhythm, its inner clock. In normal people, ambient conditions, especially the sun, dictate their humors and determine when they are tuckered out for the day. Theyâ€™re on a twenty-four-hour cycle. Bipolar people run on cycles independent of the sun. And run and run."

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Source : Sam Kean (2011). “The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table”, p.252, Random House

Sam Kean

#Running Quotes #Independent Quotes #People Quotes

“It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.”
“It's okay to lose your pride over someone you love. Don't lose someone you love though over your pride!”

Source : Song: Baby Don't Go, 2007
“My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.280, Harlequin
“Change the attitude toward errors. Think of an object's user as attempting to do a task, getting there by imperfect approximations. Don't think of the user as making errors; think of the actions as approximations of what is desired.”
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”

Source : "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.
“Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.”
“Old age is a woman's hell.”
“I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.”

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