Bessel van der Kolk Quotes
Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
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When you get married you forget about kissing other women.
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Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
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When we are confronted with extreme situations, we forget about moral issues; we simply act and must then accept the consequences.
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Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.
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I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
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This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.
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That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
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Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.
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My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams, of course. But does anybody desperately want to dream more than the people of North Korea?
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An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.
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Truman's name will for ever be associated with the memory of far-sighted American leadership in a great global endeavour. And you will see that every one of my five lessons brings me to the conclusion that such leadership is no less sorely needed now than it was 60 years ago.
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Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
