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“There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.”
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“Numerous experiments showed that people feel depressed when they fail to live up to their own ideals, but when they fall short of a standard set by others, they feel anxious.”
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions”
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
― How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
“if what i feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on earth”
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“It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother's heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing apparatus is the pulse of our mother's blood through her veins and arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to hear. Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our mother's ovary. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of us spent five months in our grandmother's womb and she in turn formed within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born. And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through the grandmothers to the first mother. We all share the blood of the first mother. We are truly children of one blood.”
― When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
― When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
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