Adventure Quote by Jon Ronson

“The quick reaction that results from the amygdala pathway is typically called the fight-or-flight response.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“LeDoux and others have shown how auditory information about the tone stimulates BLA neurons. At first, activation of those neurons is irrelevant to the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“What do all of these involuntary shakes and shivers have in common? Why do we quake when frightened or tremble in anger? Why do…

— Peter A. Levine

Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy; work…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in…

— Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche

“Thus there’s dopaminergic activation during schadenfreude—gloating over an envied person’s fall from grace.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“amygdalae filter through the information to determine its threat-level significance and mobilizes a response.”

— David DiSalvo

“If this is the case, then the “normal state” Prozac ushers in is an experience in the surreal, Dali’s dripping clock, a disorientation so…

— Lauren Slater

“There is something sustaining in the very agitation that accompanies the first shocks of trouble, just as an acute pain is often a stimulus,…

— George Eliot

“In yet another paradox, bulimia nervosa serves as both an expression of feelings and a defense against experiencing feelings, particularly shame, anger, loneliness, sadness,…

— Sheila M. Reindl

“I thought about death and was gripped by feelings which choked my chest and made my throat dry, a sudden pushing and shoving in…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“On occasion, these periods of total despair would be made even worse by terrible agitation. My mind would race from subject to subject, but…

— Kay Redfield Jamison