Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
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I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.
Taylor Momsen -
I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
Zach Woods -
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
What is a child?" he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. "Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children." She paused. "Adults sell themselves.
Celia S. Friedman -
The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.
T. H. White
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To the extent that I had come to understand that despair does not necessarily result in annihilation, that one can go on as usual in spite of it, I had become hardened. Was this what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities? I didn't like it, but it made it easier to go on.
Banana Yoshimoto -
Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.
Brian Tracy -
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.
Walt Disney -
At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan -
I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
Kristen Stewart -
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.
Julia Roberts -
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
C. S. Lewis -
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
Lala Lajpat Rai -
The media nowadays has given the message to adults. Don't try new things, don't look foolish because we will catch you and then broadcast it to the world. I think children don't have that.
Jamie Lee Curtis -
I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.
Vinny Guadagnino -
The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.
Confucius
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Everything I know I imagine everyone else knows as well. And then everything that everyone else knows I imagine they know on top of what I know, so I'm constantly anxious about what everyone else knows.
Scarlett Thomas -
The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.
Ned Vizzini -
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
Oscar Wilde -
Since Ummah is a society on the move, a society not in place, but on the way, towards an objective, having a direction, then we need an Imam (from the same root as umma) to lead us toward that objective.
Ali Shariati -
You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
Ernesto Bertarelli -
Anxious toddlers tend to grow into anxious adults.
Bessel van der Kolk