Our emotions are connected to our beliefs and opinions. Epictetus said what causes men suffering is not events, but their opinion about events. That piece of wisdom is very useful because it gives you some ability to have control over your emotions.
— Jules Evans“Science is a learning experience. We are interacting with nature, collecting evidence, and sometimes nature is more imaginative than we are. We ought to be humble when collective evidence, and not assume we know the answer in advance. Many of the realities we create are designed to flatter our ego... We prefer to attach ourselves to virtual realities that flatter us, and that's driven by ego.”— Avi Loeb
Harvard astrophysicist who studies interstellar objects and extraterrestrial life
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We have the ability to push much further than we think is possible, but the brain wants us to rest to allow the body to recover. With practice and training we can overcome almost any discomfort.
— David BlaineIllusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials
Endurance is mind over body. It's about tapping into something within us that allows us to push further than we ever thought possible, especially at our weakest moments.
— David BlaineIllusionist & Street Magician Known for Endurance Stunts & Television Specials
Nobody should ever feel isolated, or like they have nowhere to turn. Whether it's at school, home, or in the workplace. Nobody should ever feel a cultural burden of silence around mental health challenges.
— Chirlane McCrayWife of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio; Mental Health Advocate & Poet
The truth is that many in the clergy don't know what to do when people come to them with something that can't be prayed away! They need the right training, support and signposting skills to help.
— Chirlane McCrayWife of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio; Mental Health Advocate & Poet
The first and most important part of tackling mental health challenges is to drive cultural change. If you don't change the culture around mental health- people will continue to be stigmatised, people will continue to stay silent, people will not seek the help they need.
— Chirlane McCrayWife of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio; Mental Health Advocate & Poet
It shocks me that our society has not caught up with the fact that mental illnesses should be treated like any other disease, and not relegated to the justice system. We have so many different therapies and medicines, and people can make significant recoveries.
— Chirlane McCrayWife of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio; Mental Health Advocate & Poet
There are two key advantages of thinking of guns as a public health issue. First of all, it removes some of the emotion from the issue. Secondly it moves the debate to be about evidence; where we can empirically show what works, at what cost.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
The basic problem is that if you attempt to commit suicide with a gun, you typically succeed. It's also true that there is a more violent culture generally in the US. The US in general, has broader problems with crime, with social dysfunction, narcotics often, and all these work together with guns to create this epidemic.
— Nicholas KristofPulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist & New York Times Columnist
The people who do better are somehow better connected. In other words, there is an inherent logic in the idea that the more connections individuals make within their communities the better off they will be emotionally, socially, physically and economically.
— Matthew NicholsonA lot of people assume that I would choose not to have bipolar disorder; but I'm grateful for it. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, because I feel like all the ups and downs have formed who I am, and made be braver, tougher… more creative and more capable.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
We don't change the world through opinions, we change it with examples. So I've been putting myself out there, reaching out and connecting- and you know what, I've had a huge amount of people coming forward telling me their own mental health journey.
— AJ MendezProfessional wrestler and WWE performer, known as AJ Lee
If we want to live and become 100 years old, we need to have parents and grandparents that have lived that long- that's it. There's not much we can do in terms of environmental influence, eating well, and living well – those things help of course but to get to great age, you need the genes.
— Dr. Rowan HooperIn the same way that kids would benefit from healthy, happy parents- startups would benefit from healthy, happy founders.
— Rand FishkinFounder of Moz, SEO software company and industry thought leader
In the spring, when we lose an hour of sleep, we observe a consequential 24% increase in heart attacks the following day. In the Autumn, when we gain an hour, we see a corresponding 21% reduction in heart attacks.
— Matthew WalkerSleep scientist and author of "Why We Sleep
Lack of sleep is like a broken water pipe in your home, it leaks water into every nook and cranny, and erodes the fabric of your DNA nucleic alphabet that spells out your daily health narrative.
— Matthew WalkerSleep scientist and author of "Why We Sleep