Cathy

“We do know that humans got hit hard by the Toba Super Volcano. We were on the brink of extinction. That caused what population geneticists call a ‘population bottleneck.’ Some researchers believe that this bottleneck caused a small group of humans to evolve, to survive through mutation. These mutations could have led to humanity’s exponential explosion in intelligence. There’s genetic evidence for it. We know that every human being on the planet is directly descended from one man who lived in Africa around sixty thousand years ago—a person we geneticists call Y-Chromosomal Adam. In fact, everyone outside of Africa is descended from a small band of humans, maybe as few as one hundred, that left Africa about 50,000 years ago. Essentially, we’re all members of a small tribe that walked out of Africa after Toba and took over the planet. That tribe was significantly more intelligent than any other hominids in history.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Atlantis Gene

“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment.”
― Richard Conrad, Culture Hacks: Deciphering Differences in American, Chinese, and Japanese Thinking

“Even if I could be forgiven, how long could I keep up the insincere apologies I made in pain, once I was back in my comfortable old high place. IV-98. For never can true reconcilement grow / Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd so deep:”
― Joseph Lanzara, John Milton's Paradise Lost In Plain English

“our state of mind, more than anything “out there,” determines our level of success.”
― Barbara Stanny, Secrets of Six-Figure Women