Brains Quote by Jill Bolte Taylor

“It is interesting to note that although our limbic system functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional…

— Jill Bolte Taylor

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually…

— Anonymous

The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years.

— Robin Marantz Henig

“very last section of the brain to mature, during the teenage years and early twenties, is the prefrontal cortex, which controls judgment, impulse control,…

— Sarah Ockwell-Smith

Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse.

— Nikhil Saluja

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle.…

— Angela Duckworth

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our…

— Louis Kronenberger

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

— E. M. Forster

Age plays cruel tricks on the human face; all our repressed feelings become visible on the surface, where they harden like a mask.

— Sue Grafton

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.

— Anonymous

The science of Contrology disproves that prevalent and all-too-trite saying; 'You're only as old as you feel.' The art of Contrology proves that the…

— Joseph Pilates