Lynn Wells

“Where did biology, morality, literature, and philosophy intersect?”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“day three days a week for six weeks,”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“With what strife and pains we come into the world we know not, but ’tis commonly no easy matter to get out of it.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air