Brain Quote by Natalie Angier

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much…

— Audre Lorde

“Instead, these findings suggest that the amygdala injects implicit distrust and vigilance into social decision making.23 All thanks to learning. In the words of…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Across generations, wariness of new individuals, groups, and ideas was built into the circuits of the human brain's alarm response because those who had…

— Bruce D. Perry

“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.”

— Sarah Pekkanen

“Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Playing nice" comes naturally when our neuroception detects safety and promotes physiological states that support social behavior. However, pro-social behavior will not occur when…

— Stephen W. Porges

“Once you gave up the nervous craving to promote yourself, denigrate others, draw attention to your unique and special qualities, and ensure that you…

— Karen Armstrong

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

— Matt Ridley

“One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part,…

— Thomas Lewis

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that…

— Ben Bernanke

“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity…

— Peter Singer