Body Chemistry Quotes

• The moment you change your perception is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

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• All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

  Dennis McKenna

  Life, Food, Science

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• Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sadness, Clouds, Confusion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 17, 2014

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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• I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

  Iggy Pop

  Thinking, Years, Body

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• Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

  George Jones

  Drinking, Character, Lazy

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.204, Dell

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• Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. In addition it was humiliating, because it put you at a disadvantage, it gave the love object too much power. As for sex per se, it lacked both challenge and novelty, and was on the whole a deeply imperfect solution to the problem of intergenerational genetic transfer.

  Margaret Atwood

  Falling In Love, Sex, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Oryx And Crake”, p.109, Hachette UK

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• When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Fighting, Thinking, Mma

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• I've got this weird body chemistry that I don't like to get high. I'm not going to say I never tried drugs. I tried most everything. I didn't try injectables. But I didn't like it.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Drug, Trying, Getting High

  Source: www.pbs.org

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