Reface Quotes & Sayings

Researchers have discovered that adolescents do not walk around with a defect that prevents them from properly assessing risk. B. J. Casey, a neuroscientist at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, notes that it's just the opposite: adolescents overestimate risk, at least when it comes to situations involving their own mortality. The real problem is that they assign a greater value to the reward they will get from taking that risk than adults do. It turns out that dopamine, the hormone that signals pleasure, is never so explosively active in human beings as it is during puberty. Never over the course of our lives will we feel anything quite so intensely, or quite so exultantly, again. — Jennifer Senior

Any physical contact with her was a bonus. She could give me a noogie and I'd consider it a win. — Beth Ehemann

What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time? — William Shakespeare

I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones. — Caroline Cairn

Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don't, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction. — Robin Furth

You are in the grip of a desire for martyrdom and self-sacrifice; conquer this desire as well, set aside your pages and your intention
and then you will overcome everything. You will put to shame all your pride and your demon! You will win, you will attain freedom ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky