Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

Agreeableness motivates aggression

Cortisol makes you old

If you have a memory that's more than 18 month old approximately and when you pull that memory up to mind, if you still have an emotional reaction, that means you have not fully articulated the memory. You have not analyzed it causally, you have not freed yourself from its grasp and you are carrying it like a weight and your brain responds to that. The more baggage you are carrying like that the more stress hormone cortisol your brain produces and cortisol makes you old

Self motivation

Key phrase - self motivation. You’ve got to motivate yourself because I found out you can’t change people. They can change themselves, but you can’t change them. Lord knows some I’ve tried. People have to change themselves. It takes self motivation to really alter your life

There is evil in the world of all sorts and some of it's the evil in other people. And some of it is the evil in your brother's heart. But part of it that you can really do something about that's the malevolence in your own heart. You can actually do something about that and that's actually way more useful than you think. Because if you can face it in you, then you start to understand it and that also makes you strong enough to identify it and to fight it when you see it in the external world. Plus you don't do any harm