Becoming Quote by Hans Selye

It's a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which…

— Robert Sapolsky

As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.

— Kevin Nealon

“To age is to embrace a slow hurt inside and out, to collect scars like rings on a tree, dark and withered and sometimes…

— Fred Venturini

You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get…

— Jennifer Lawrence

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

— George Vaillant

The aging process is more traumatic for those who think they can control the passage of time.

— Paulo Coelho

Complete freedom from stress is death

— Hans Selye

Death grows friendlier as we grow older.

— Anonymous

The ability to recover gets harder the older you get.

— Buster Posey

Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of continual loss.

— Haruki Murakami

“if you’re stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky