Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

A person should be important to you for you to be also important to the person so that you will be important to any other person.

There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.

I never starved myself.