Desloges Family History Quotes & Sayings

Because loving is reciprocal physiologic influence, it entails a deeper and more literal connection than most realize. Limbic regulation affords lovers the ability to modulate each other's emotions, neurophysiology, hormonal status, immune function, sleep rhythms, and stability. If one leaves on a trip, the other may suffer insomnia, a delayed menstrual cycle, a cold that would have been fought off in the fortified state of togetherness. (208) — Thomas Lewis

It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be acknowledged, even held lovingly, that enables us to look at the pain around us unflinchingly and feel compassion being born in us. We need to start with ourselves. — Sylvia Boorstein

If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey. — Charles Churchill

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence. — John Keats

The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death. — Ahmadou Kourouma