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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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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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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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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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's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
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I sing and drink and sleep on floorsAnd try hard not to be annoyedBy all these people worrying about me.So when I'm suffering through some awful drive,You occasionally cross my mind.It's my hidden hope that you are still among them.Well, are you?
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I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
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Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?
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Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.
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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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I'm a registered conservative.
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In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.
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No matter how far apart we are, don't forget that we're still under the same sky, both traveling to the place we once dreamed of.
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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.
