Give lab rats oxytocin and, according to that meme, they get better at talking about their feelings and sing like Joan Baez.

How much you groom somebody else is more important than who grooms you.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic, outside the frontal cortex's portfolio - Then it isn't the harder thing, it's the only thing you can do.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

...I might continue to believe that there is no god even if it were proved that there is. A religious friend of mine once remarked that the concept of god is useful, because you can berate god during the bad times. But it is clear to me that I don't need to believe there is a god in order to berate him.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.