#plastic

Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas. ↗

— Andrew Weil

#happiness #neuroplasticity #change

The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#nature #plastic #purity #subjection #truth

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. ↗

— Max Ernst

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic. ↗

— Jimmy Cliff

#fantastic #find #generally #go #hard

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition--so that women will only feel healthy if we are two thirds of the women we could be. How can an "ideal" be about women if it is defined as how much of a female sexual characteristic does not show on her body, and how much of a female life does not show on her face? ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#i #many #never #plastic #plastic surgery

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious. ↗

— Amy Lee

#hilarious #i #i love #know #love

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper! ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#know #milk #paper #plastic #you

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#hate #horror #i #kind #knife

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. ↗

— William Nicholson

#irish #just #lad #much #plastic