Quotes About Emotional predisposition

In fact, happiness is one of the most highly heritable aspects of personality. Twin studies generally show that from 50 percent to 80 percent of all the variance among people in their average levels of happiness can be explained by differences in their genes rather than in their life experiences. 28 (Particular episodes of joy or depression, however, must usually be understood by looking at how life events interact with a person's emotional predisposition.)

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.