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Poor Meg seldom complained, but a sense of injustice made her feel bitter toward everyone sometimes, for she had not yet learned to know how rich she was in the blessings which alone can make life happy.
“If I had not taken that turn when I was a lad,’ he thought, ‘I might have got into some stupid draught-horse work or other, and lived always in blinkers. I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbours. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogies in the parish too. It is rather harder for a clergyman: Farebrother seems to be an anomaly.”
― Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
“It is not only microbes that are benefiting from sharing our bodies, but us too. Our relationship with them is not just one of tolerance, but encouragement. This realisation, combined with the technical power of DNA sequencing and germ-free mouse studies, began a revolution in science. The Human Microbiome Project, run by the United States’ National Institutes for Health, alongside many other studies in laboratories around the world, has revealed that we utterly depend on our microbes for health and happiness.”
― 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
― 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.”
― Learn to Read Korean in 60 Minutes by 90 Day Korean: The Ultimate Crash Course to Learning Hangul Through Psychological Associations
― Learn to Read Korean in 60 Minutes by 90 Day Korean: The Ultimate Crash Course to Learning Hangul Through Psychological Associations
“Regular exercise is associated with greater hippocampal and overall brain volume. Since the brain naturally starts to shrink by 1–2 per cent per year starting around the age of 40, regular exercise can, in effect, reverse brain ageing. For the moment, exercise is the closest thing we have to the fountain of eternal youth.”
― How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
― How to Build a Healthy Brain: Reduce stress, anxiety and depression and future-proof your brain
“A twin study revealed that when physical activity was conducted outdoors it resulted in significantly lower rates of depression than when exercise occurred indoors.”
― The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind
― The Aging Brain: Proven Steps to Prevent Dementia and Sharpen Your Mind
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