sitting

You are what you think. We are just beginning to understand the truth of that statement. But it's difficult at best to control the messages we send ourselves all the time.

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.... Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and writer, in 1844, which may have made him the first person to propose that emotionality is hard wired.