Tag: heart

Zelda Fitzgerald

zelda-scott-fitzgerald24 July 2015 – Zelda Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery, Alabama, 115 year ago today.

 

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
– Zelda Fitzgerald

Glass of Wine for a Healthier Heart

Health Issues

 

Glass of Wine for a Healthier Heart


We have heard that red wine is supposed to be good for the heart but according to a massive 10-year study made at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a half a glass or up to a glass of any liquor, beer or wine, whether red or white, are equally as good.  Just ensure that your tipple stops at just a glass a day.

The study, authored by Dr Monk Jimenez, found that women who drank a glass of spirit a day had a lower risk of stroke than those who were complete teetotal.

The reason why alcohol is useful is because of its element that prevents the dangerous clotting of the blood.  Another factor was that it also raises the level of good cholesterol in the blood.

But girls, the study was in no way giving encouragement to imbibe senselessly with alcohol every day.  Too much alcohol in the bloodstream, paradoxically, can also bring out problems of its own like a higher risk of blood pressure.  Just remember,   too much of everything can be a dangerous thing.

Moderation is the key.

Blaise Pascal

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Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)


  • French mathematician
  • inventor
  • He also invented the first adding machine in 1642.
  • writer
  • philosopher
  • He contributed to the theory of probability.
  • He’s famous for the Pascal Wager.

 

 


Anything that is written to please the author is worthless.
– Blaise Pascal

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
– Blaise Pascal

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
– Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
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I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
~Blaise Pascal

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.
– Blaise Pascal

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
– Blaise Pascal
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It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.
– Blaise Pascal

“Kind words don’t cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
~Blaise Pascal
Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. hesitate not, then, to wager that He is. (Pascal’s Wager)

Most of the evils of life arise from man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
– Blaise Pascal


Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
– Blaise Pascal

(I love the quote. Man is weak, easily bent, but he is strong because of ability to think, to reason)


Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
– Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
– Blaise Pascal

Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.

To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
~Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing of. (The heart has its reason, which reason does not know.)
– Blaise Pascal

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Apparently the heart is more than just a pumping machine for blood. It stores data, it has a neuro-network just like the brain.

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When we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted, for we thought to see an author and found a man.
– Blaise Pascal

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When we are too young our judgment is at fault; so also when we are too old.
—Pascal.
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
– Pascal
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We find fault with perfection itself.
– Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
– Blaise Pascal

“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
~Pascal