Clinging to our habits is a way of shutting out the terrible and the wonderful.


“Schopenhauer’s saying: All great truth goes through three phases. First it is ridiculed, then violently attacked, and finally accepted as self-evident.”
― Anticancer, a New Way of Life
― Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Immune cells are also sensitive to our emotions. They react positively to emotional states characterized by a sense of well-being and a feeling that we are connected to those around us. It’s as if our immune cells mobilize all the better when they are in the service of a life that is objectively worth living.”
― Anticancer, a New Way of Life
― Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“Whenever I hear about the woman’s trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin’-says-lovin’-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level,”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

“There is little likelihood that our physicians will suggest these approaches. Changes in lifestyle cannot, by definition, be patented. Thus, they do not become medications and they do not require prescriptions. This means thatmost physicians don’t consider them within their realm, so it is up to each of us to make them our own.”
― Anticancer, a New Way of Life
― Anticancer, a New Way of Life

“I suppose almost everyone who writes is afflicted some of the time by the suspicion that nobody out there is listening,”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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