#ma

The positive effect of kindness on the immune system and on the increased production of serotonin in the brain has been proved on research studies. Serotonin is a naturally occurring substance in the body that makes us feel more comfortable, peaceful, and even blissful. In fact the role of most anti-depressants is to stimulate the serotonin production to alleviate depression. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed toward another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates production of serotonin in both the recipient of the kindness and the person extending the kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Imagine this: kindness extended, received, or observed beneficially impacts the physical health and feelings of everyone involved. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#kindness #mind-body-connection #imagination

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#magic #magick #occult #satanism #nature

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#snobbery #men

The photograph, then, becomes a representation of a representation of a disease that represents. In other words, in order to produce the most perfect images of hysteria, the hysteric – a woman whose illness simulates the symptoms of other diseases – was transformed, through hypnosis, into an artificial hysteric who perfectly simulated the simulations of hysteria. The medical photograph becomes a copy of a copy of a copy, a representation so far removed from the original that all duplicitous traits, were easily erased, leaving the deranged and chaotic nature of the original far behind. The photograph succeeded in turning the hysteric into a wholly artificial being, literally a flat, framed, unmoving image. ↗

— Asti Hustvedt

#hysterics #image #photograph #women #nature

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #bible #bitterness #denial #epithet

„Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund ↗

— Marlen Haushofer - Die Wand

#thinking-with-a-great-mind #nature

How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint? ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#god #medieval #misogyny #nature #society

Man is the only creature in the process of evolution, that plays no role in maintaining the integrity of the earths pocessions, his only purpose was in fullfilling the needs of his own kind. ↗

— Moses Pereira

#nature

But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others. ↗

— Heather Graham

#nature

Humans are naturally social; civilization causes us to be antisocial." From my next book: The Five Forgotten Truths ↗

— Kirk D. Sinclair

#human-nature #nature