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“Depression’s defining symptom is anhedonia, the inability to feel, anticipate, or pursue pleasure. Chronic stress depletes the mesolimbic system of dopamine, generating anhedonia. The link between childhood adversity and adult depression involves both organizational effects on the developing mesolimbic system and elevated adult glucocorticoid levels, which can deplete dopamine.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“Simplemente, recuerda: nadie puede quitarte lo que pones en tu mente”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“A good definition of being a victim is when you keep the focus outside yourself, when you look outside yourself for someone to blame for your present circumstances, or to determine your purpose, fate, or worth.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure