Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries.
Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.
Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century.
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
