this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

We should enjoy every minute we live today because who knows if we will have a chance to do so tomorrow.

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

Positive thinkers use sentences like “I can do it”

Strange how this war was making them all Americans.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still.

Parliaments have stopped laughing at woman suffrage, and politicians have begun to dodge! It is the inevitable premonition of coming victory.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.