“What we ingest or experience or inhale will make a difference to our health —literally the number of minutes allotted us to live.” Page 90.
“What we ingest or experience or inhale will make a difference to our health —literally the number of minutes allotted us to live.” Page 90.
“ The eyes don‘t see what the mind doesn‘t know.“ Page 22.
Resilience is the key, the deciding factor between a child, who overcomes adversity and thrives and a child, who never makes it to a healthy adulthood. Page 14.
“Resilience isn‘t something you were born with. It isn‘t a trait that you have or don‘t have. It‘s learned. This means that for every child raised in a toxic environment or an unraveling community - both of which take a terrible toll on childhood development and can have lasting effects-there is hope. Page 14.
“It is a story about what happens when the very people responsible for keeping us safe, care more about money and power, than they care about us, or our children.” - P. 13
"Typically, if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves."
"By contrast, those with unconstrained vision, tend to view human nature as beneficially changeable and social customs as expendable holdovers from the past." P. 28
"Man is, in short, " perfectible"---meaning continually improvable rather than capable of actually reaching absolute perfection." P. 18
"Implicit is the unconstrained vision to the notion that potential is very different from the actual, and that means exist to improve human nature toward its potential, or that such means can be evolved or discovered, so that man will do the right thing for the right reason, rather than for the ulterior psychic or economic rewards. " P. 18
Empirical generalization - based on data p. 16/ "Evidence based on experimentation opposed to theory." - REK III
"We all have visions. They are the silent shapers of our thoughts. Visions may be moral, political, economic, religious, or social. In these or other realms, we sacrifice for our visions and sometimes, if need be, face ruin rather than betray them." Preface.
