Autonomic Quotes

#1. Research to date has shown that, like many other stressors, grief frequently leads to changes in the endocrine, immune, autonomic nervous, and cardiovascular systems; all of these are fundamentally influenced by brain function and neurotransmitters.

Joan Didion

#2. Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.

Oliver Sacks

#3. Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

Lewis Thomas

#4. Sipski defines orgasm as a reflex of the autonomic nervous system that can be either facilitated or inhibited by cerebral input (thoughts and feelings).

Mary Roach

#5. Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.

Minhal Mehdi

#6. I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

Gerard Butler

#7. I don't usually have time for TV. When I get home at night, I just want to fall asleep.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#8. Never expect & you will never be disappointed

Jo

#9. What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?

Ruta Sepetys

#10. The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.

Lynda Resnick

#11. It's an easy thing to want someone, it's another to love them.

Rachel E. Carter

#12. The left has chosen the courts as a major battlefield over social issues.

Rod Parsley

#13. And I'll gaze across the chasm to the other side of the island, where I can still sometimes catch sight of a curly-haired urchin running joyously through the tall purple grass, her faithful dog at her heels.

Michelle Cooper

#14. High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

#15. Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops.

Kurt Vonnegut