Neuropeptides Quotes & Sayings

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides. — Deepak Chopra

Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word. — Alan Bennett

I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor. — Rosemary Mahoney

Master your thoughts and you master your world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Along with all the fame — Milly Taiden

You must not only exist in the world, live life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling. — Deepak Chopra

Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another ( ... ) — Salman Rushdie

Time travel is complicated, or so we think, since we have not yet managed to actually figure out how to do it. — Serena Yates

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen - or better still, talk - that their parents were just as bad. — John Ralston Saul

If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs. — Deepak Chopra

Anyone who falls into your hands falls to your sword! — Margaret MacMillan

In Tibet your wealth is determined by how many yaks you own. — Jordan Romero

War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art. — Richard Flanagan

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot. — Ike Turner

It is ignorance that smothers, and it is carelessness that makes it invisible. The hunger of craving pollutes the world, and the pain of suffering causes the greatest fear. — Gautama Buddha